The Department of Commerce (Commerce) intends to award a sole source contract to Replica, Inc. The contract will be awarded on or about April 30, 2025 and will expire on March 30, 2026. The contract amount is $250,000 for the contract period. Commerce reserves the right to extend this contract for up to two one-year subscription contract periods based on funding availability and programmatic needs.
Background and purpose
This contract provides Commerce access to Replica’s existing proprietary data. The Replica synthesized and anonymized data provide the unique information that will enable Commerce’s Clean Transportation Program to generate internally consistent and representative travel models to support the build out of the state’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Previous round of grant funding provided over $80 million dollars to recipients and the next round of funding will provide between $10 million to $40 million in additional funding to build out charging station infrastructure. Replica develops and implements proprietary technology to estimate daily individual itinerary characteristics and dwell times (that will help locate the most effective charging station locations), based on analyzing locations from millions of devices, while ensuring the individual privacy of travelers is protected.
Commerce will be using this data, in combination with data from CoStar, Inc., the US Census Bureau, Housing and Urban Development, Washington Department of Transportation, Office of Financial Management, Department of Ecology, Department of Health, Washington Tracking Network, Washington State GeoPortal (aerial imagery, vector land cover data) and others. All of this information will help identify ideal locations for charging stations and to inform applicants applying for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Grants as well as Program Staff in the evaluation and awarding of grant funds.
Replica, Inc. offers this detailed and comprehensive traffic and population movement data based on a synthetic population with dozens of data variables and inputs taken in to consideration with no Personally Identifiable Information. This cloud-based data synthesizes a composite of high-quality data inputs including location-based services data, connected-vehicle data from both personal vehicles and commercial freight vehicles, point-of-interest and associated visits data, publicly available and proprietary real estate data, payments data, and observed mobility ground-truth “counts” into a single data platform. This composite-approach reduces sampling bias and generates greater overall data quality.
Anyone wishing to submit a capability statement to challenge this sole source award must have the ability to provide synthesized and anonymized data which enables Commerce to comprehensively understand the movement of people and goods and identifies areas:
- Where individuals are living in an overburdened community, as defined in RCW 02.010;
- Where individuals who are in greatest need of this assistance in order to reduce the carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of their current mode of transportation in the overburdened community in which they live; and
- Which will serve low-income communities, communities with the greatest health disparities, and communities of color that are most likely to receive the greatest health benefits from the programs through a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants that will result in improved groundwater and storm water quality, improved air quality, and reductions in noise pollution.
Offerors contemplating the above requirements are required to submit capability statements detailing their ability to meet the state’s requirements within ten (10) business days of this announcement. In the absence of other qualified sources, it is the state’s intent to make a sole source award of the contract. Capability statements or questions must be sent to ashly.mcbunch@commerce.wa.gov .