Scope of Work : DEQ is seeking a technology service provider to develop a Proof-of-Concept (POC) to support and streamline the Virginia Water Protection Program (VWPP) permit review process. This pilot project will develop an artificial intelligence (AI) agentic solution on a Government Cloud Platform environment provided by VITA's AWS environment (or other cloud environment supported by VITA), utilizing only publicly available, non-constituent data provided by DEQ to the vendor. The POC aims to demonstrate the feasibility of an intelligent system to assist in permit evaluation completeness, and then for consistency with all DEQ requirements and applicable Federal requirements for internal DEQ permit writers as well as develop initial draft VWPP permits for DEQ permit writers. If successful, this POC could be utilized. under a separate agreement as a basis for integrating into DEQ's permit system, progress tracking, and use by applicants prior to DEQ submissions.

AI/ML Maintenance Engineer Responsibilities : Monitor AI accuracy over time, retrain with new permit examples, manage model drift. Skills : MLOps, model performance monitoring Incremental learning techniques