# North Carolina eVP #Doc2440747988

North Carolina AI Environmental Permit Review Tool Pilot

**Posted:** November 09, 2026
**Respond By:** January 05, 2027
**Identifier:** Doc2440747988
**NAICS:** 541511, 541512, 541519, 513210

North Carolina is seeking an AI pilot to help its environmental agency review permits and support related public-facing and compliance workflows.
- **Government buyer:** North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ), in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (NCDIT); procurement office: NCDEQ Procurement.
- **Procurement:** Services and software to design, develop, configure, test, and pilot AI solutions. No OEM, commercial vendor, specific product, or hardware is named in the notice or attachment.
- **Pilot use cases:**
  - Permit application completeness checks, configured for at least 2–3 priority permit types (quantity: 1 use case).
  - Public-comment analysis, including theme and sentiment categorization and summaries traceable to source comments (quantity: 1 use case).
  - Applicant permit assistance to help identify potentially applicable permits and navigate requirements and application readiness (quantity: 1 use case).
  - Site permit-history compilation across approved NCDEQ data sources, with searchable and traceable histories (quantity: 1 use case).
- **Notable requirements:** Human review of AI outputs; security and responsible-AI controls; U.S.-based data hosting; accessibility; integration capability; testing and validation; documentation; and vendor training. Support and maintenance planning is required for each use case.
- **Performance:** One initial year, with two optional one-year extensions. The cost form also describes 12 months of post-deployment support for each use case. NCDEQ anticipates multiple awards.
- **Classifications:** Information Technology Service Delivery (811600) and cloud-based software as a service (811620).

### Description

The Department of Environmental Quality is soliciting proposals for the DEQ AI Permitting Pilot. The primary commodity code is 811600 (Information Technology Service Delivery). Only vendors registered for the State of North Carolina's Electronic Vendor Portal can respond, and vendors must sign in to submit a response. The response deadline is January 5, 2027, at 2:00 PM.

[View original listing](https://evp.nc.gov/solicitations//details/?id=15a8450c-4fdc-f111-84ea-001dd80db495)