EXTRA-77013 - USA (Arlington, Virginia) - Intrinsic Market Resilience Services - Deadline December 7,2026

Vendor needs to provide intrinsic market resilience services to the government authority located in Arlington, VA.– Intrinsic market resilience (IMR) will develop methodology and software tools to identify design flaws in domestic online equity markets and recommend repairs that ensure resilience against different classes of attacks from non–economic actors.– Aims to protect domestic market trade sequences and misuses of market coordination mechanisms that exploit equity market design vulnerabilities.– Focuses on modeling markets and analyzing their resilience.– Program will create a prototype capability for modeling, analyzing, and repairing markets.– Program addresses this gap by developing a prototype set of tools to automatically model market designs, identify hidden weaknesses, and recommend and test repairs that make economic sectors containing markets more resilient to attack.– Modern markets, which host trading for everything from equities and bonds to energy and cloud computing resources, can be manipulated in ways unanticipated by their designers.– Combine large language model (LLM)–based automation with rigorous modeling and analysis to identify remediations for market weaknesses.– Develop formal notations to precisely describe how markets operate and coordinate, creating machine–analyzable models from informal descriptions like regulatory filings and technical specifications.