Opportunity Alert: RFP for Contact Tracing, Dashboard, Hosted and Managed Services

A key transit agency in Northern California is soliciting proposals for contact-tracing technology that employees can wear on their work badges and that would alert them that they’ve been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19. The proposal should also include managed and hosted services and a dashboard that’s accessible to AC Transit management.

According to AC Transit’s announcement, The successful vendor would provide Ultra Wide Band (UWB) contact-tracing technology to be placed on the badges of a small group of employees in the Alameda-Contra Costa County Transit District (AC Transit) as a pilot program. Once results are in and data gathered, the tracing badges would be disseminated to a second, larger group of employees, working in different locations.

“Once it is established that the technology performs accurately,” the RFP bid documents say, the badges will be distributed to the district’s remaining employees and locations.

Proposals should adhere to these guidelines, spelled out in the RFP:

The product must be UWB wearable, incorporated into employee’s badge.

The technology must include nodes that collect data from the wearables at AC Transit locations and stores it to the cloud.

The information recorded by this technology must be available such that upon notification of an employee’s positive COVID-19 case, the District’s staff can immediately perform contact tracing investigation.

The technology must include a responsive dashboard for use by the District’s management.

The technology must include customer support services.

The technology must include managed and hosted services.

Interested vendors should include in their proposals a link demonstrating your technology.

The RFP was issued Thursday. Responses are due by 4 p.m. Sept. 3.