Evidence Handling Platform

It is anticipated that the International Criminal Court (hereafter referred to as the ICC) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, will shortly be issuing a solicitation on Evidence Handling Platform Solution. In this connection, the ICC is requesting expression of interest from qualified firms.

Scope of Work

The Information and Evidence Unit (IEU) of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking a holistic end-to-end evidence handling platform. The solution IEU is seeking consists of two separate but highly valuable components.

• An evidence handling platform to support non-technical users in managing, reviewing, analysing and disclosing evidence.
• An evidence processing platform facilitating ingestion, indexing, image conversion, and OCR of raw data.

The evidence handling platform should resolve a myriad of backlog projects affecting the team. This backlog includes an integrated chain of custody system, media tracking, and vault management. Additionally, there is an increasing need to be able to merge first pass relevance review and fact analysis within the same business process. In this sense review is not limited to a linear flat-file methodology but instead a complex relational review process meeting several requirements in a single review passes.

The evidence processing platform must allow the team to meet jurisdictional requirements such that 100% of evidence receive tiff images (both colour or black and white tiff).  Additionally, the platform must facilitate the processing of a wide range of unstructured and structured data types. Furthermore, the ICC handles a wide-array of non-Western European languages both in electronic and hardcopy.  As a result, the entire system must be Unicode compliant and support search methodologies of various linguistic structures. The system should also have robust support of mixed-language OCR.

Finally, the ICC has stringent information security requirements. As a result, the entire system will have to be implemented and managed behind our firewall.

The detailed scope of work will be given under the Request for Proposal document that will be sent

to the firms who respond to this EOI.

Interested firms/organizations should forward their Expression of Interest by facsimile or e-mail to the attention of Ms. Laurence Dekkers by e-mail laurence.dekkers@icc-cpi.int    Please use the attached form (Page 3).

Interested firms/organizations registered with the UN Global Marketplace, please indicate your vendor registration number.

Please be advised that this Request for EOI does not constitute a solicitation.  It should also be noted that the ICC reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement at any time.