The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is finalizing its acquisition approach for a forthcoming requirement that will include comprehensive Data Administration (DA) support. The data administrator will be responsible for the overall management of organizational data resources, including data definition, policies, procedures, and standards, data conflict resolution, database planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance, data protection, data performance assurance, data architecture, data modeling, metadata management, and user training, education, and consulting support. The requirement will also include support for USDA's Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform (EDAPT), which is the centralized enterprise system for reporting, analytics, and business intelligence. Key EDAPT support elements anticipated for the solicitation include managing EDAPT as the central repository of integrated USDA data, supporting analytical reporting, dashboards, and data products developed across the enterprise, implementing data cleansing and transformation activities to ensure data quality prior to reporting use, and supporting ingestion, integration, and quality assurance for operational data sources.
• Data definition, policies, procedures, and standards
• Data conflict resolution
• Database planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance
• Data protection
• Data performance assurance
• Data architecture
• Data modeling
• Metadata management
• User training, education, and consulting support
• Managing EDAPT as the central repository of integrated USDA data
• Supporting analytical reporting, dashboards, and data products developed across the enterprise
• Implementing data cleansing and transformation activities to ensure data quality prior to reporting use
• Supporting ingestion, integration, and quality assurance for operational data sources