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C501247-HCaptcha

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2139263State & Local

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The New York State Unified Court System (UCS) is establishing a single source contract, identified as C501247, for a CAPTCHA service to protect its websites from automated bot traffic, scraping, credential stuffing, and brute-force password guessing attacks. The service is expected to handle approximately 10 million verifications per month over a one-year term from October 22, 2026, to October 21, 2027. The solution must be compatible with current hCaptcha and reCaptcha APIs and adhere to WCAG 2.1 level AA accessibility standards. Technical requirements include the use of advanced machine learning for bot detection with minimal user friction, avoiding a heavy reliance on proof-of-work to discourage scraping incentives. The system must provide comprehensive integrated analytics and monitoring, including solve rates and bot-likelihood scores with drill-down capabilities by client ASN, subnet, and IP. Additionally, the service must allow portal-based customization of behavior based on client attributes without requiring source code changes. To ensure user privacy, the contract mandates that user and session data cannot be sold or utilized for advertising.

General Info

NYS UCS contract C501247 for CAPTCHA bot protection services from 2026 to 2027.

Agency

New York → Unified Court System, NYS

NAICS

518210 - Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

Place of Performance

NY, USA

Set-Aside

NONE

Documents

6 pages · special-notice

Low

6 pages · justification-and-authorization

Low

AI Contract Breakdown

Uniform Contract Format

Timeline

PostedSep 25

special-notice

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyNew York → Unified Court System, NYS

Contacts1 person available

OfficeN/A

Organization / AgencyNew York → Unified Court System, NYS

Office AddressN/A

Contacts

Alina ZielinskiCourt Analyst

Full Description

UCS is procuring a CAPTCHA service for identifying and blocking automated ("bot") web traffic to protect against scraping and other malicious usage of UCS websites, such as credential stuffing or brute-force password guessing attacks. UCS estimates about 10 million CAPTCHA verifications will be required per month. The solution must: 1) include comprehensive integrated analytics and monitoring including solve rates and bot-likelihood scores, and should permit drill-down by client ASN, subnet and IP; 2) allow easy portal-based customization of behavior on a combination of source IP, subnet, ASN or other significant client attributes without requiring application source code changes. This customization includes reducing or increasing challenge difficulty, as well as blocking certain clients without requiring a firewall-level or WAF block; 3) not rely significantly on proof-of-work as this creates significant financial incentives for users to scrape the UCS website; 4) leverage advanced machine learning to identify suspicious users (bots) with minimal user friction; 5) meet at least WCAG 2.1 level AA; 6) preserve user privacy in that user and session data cannot be sold or used for advertising; and 7) be compatible with UCS’s current implementation (hCaptcha/reCaptcha API compatible). UCS is requesting a contract term of one year (10/22/2026-10/21/2027.) This contract is C501247. This is a single source contract notification. This is not a procurement opportunity.