Tenders/DPS Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS)

DPS Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS)

Department of Management - IT

Published: Oct 16, 2026

Updated: Oct 16, 2026

About This Opportunity

This is a services contract in the information and communication technology, audit and accounting, legal services, governance and public administration and security and defense sectors, with a focus on Due Diligence. Located in United States, North America, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums.

Published through Iowa Bid Opportunities, a national government procurement portal. Public procurement tenders follow the country's national bidding regulations and may have specific eligibility and documentation requirements for services in the information and communication technology sector. Service contracts are typically evaluated on both technical quality and price, and may require bidders to demonstrate relevant experience and qualified personnel. Interested parties should review the full documentation on the original source before submitting their proposal.

Description

The Iowa Department of Management (DOM), on behalf of the Iowa Department of Public Safety (DPS), is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to research available Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) platforms and implementation approaches. DPS seeks solutions capable of supporting centralized digital evidence intake, storage, management, sharing, retention, legal hold, immutable audit trails, and chain-of-custody controls across the agency. DPS is researching a centralized DEMS to standardize metadata and hashing practices, streamline evidentiary and records-retention workflows, and build a unified, agency-wide platform that supports consistent, efficient evidence handling as the agency continues to grow. Responses to this RFI will inform DPS's market analysis, technical and security due diligence, integration planning, rough order-of-magnitude cost and level-of-effort estimates and planning for a future procurement. Bid Number: RFI-532-2541-2027 Agency: Department of Management - IT Contact: Steve Dawson (steven.dawson@dom.iowa.gov)

Data provenance

This notice is sourced from Iowa Bid Opportunities and was originally published on October 16, 2026. Last refreshed today. BidsFactory mirrors official procurement notices and links back to the source for full legal text.

About Department of Management - IT

Department of Management - IT has issued 5 procurement notices on BidsFactory, including 2 currently open and 0 awarded contracts. Activity concentrates in Information & Communication Technology, Governance & Public Administration, and Transport & Logistics. All notices are published for United States. Notices are distributed via Iowa Bid Opportunities. Most recent publication: October 16, 2026.

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What type of contract is this?

This is a Services contract in the Information & Communication Technology sector. The classification helps bidders match the opportunity to their qualifications and registered scope of supply.