DOJ Asset Forfeiture Investigative Support Services

The Department of Justice established this Master IDIQ on March 13, 2008, with a shared ceiling of $475 million to procure investigative, analytical, and technical support services for the DOJ Asset Forfeiture Program across over 10 participating agencies operating at more than 400 locations. Ordering closed on September 30, 2022, and has been succeeded by the Asset Forfeiture Investigation Services vehicle awarded April 25, 2023. This vehicle is no longer active for new orders.

Over 18 years of operation, 224 task orders were awarded through March 2023, though momentum declined sharply after the ordering window closed: the vehicle averaged 2.2 orders per year in fiscal 2021–2022 before the last four awards in early 2023. Combined task-order potential value reached $1.38 billion, with $1.26 billion obligated (91% of potential value), indicating near-complete monetization of the vehicle's scope.

The work is highly concentrated in financial investigation and asset analysis. Task orders fund FBI Forfeiture Support Project services (data entry, financial analysis), OCDETF financial investigations, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) support, asset investigator services for U.S. Attorneys' Financial Litigation Units, and forensic accounting and pre-seizure services spanning the DEA, ATF, FDA, USDA OIG, and other federal investigative agencies.

Competition is moderately concentrated among a small set of primes. Deloitte Consulting LLP and Bearingpoint, Inc., the top two by potential value, account for $654.8 million combined (47% of total potential value) across 132 orders. Sullivan Cove Consultants, LLC, Maximus Inc., and Unisys Corporation follow, together holding another 31% of potential value. The remaining seven awardees hold 22%. Across all 12 prime contractors, 96% of task orders carried no set-aside; small business designations appear in only 8 orders (3% total).

Funding is dominated by DOJ components. The parent DOJ entity (Justice Management Division) and DOJ-wide orders account for 103 of 224 task orders with $398.1 million in combined potential value. The DEA, FBI Headquarters Division, and ATF together represent another significant customer base, with the FBI Forfeiture Support Project alone generating multiple mega-orders in the $7 million to $27 million range. Non-DOJ customer agencies (USDA, FDA, other federal offices) represent a smaller but regular funding stream.

Task orders span time-and-materials, labor-hours, and firm-fixed-price pricing. Representative recent awards from March 2023 range from $750,000 to $1.2 million in ceiling value with performance periods of 6 to 12 months, though several large labor-hour orders from 2016–2022 exceeded $20 million ceiling value. One outstanding order to Deloitte (DJJ16PSSV2668-DJD266817D001) carries a $100.8 million ceiling with time-and-materials pricing and an extended performance window.

The DOJ Asset Forfeiture Program is comprised of over 10 participating agencies spread across the country at over 400 locations. Each agency has its own operational hierarchy, its own particular duty within the DOJ Asset Forfeiture Program, and its own overall law enforcement mission. The primary objective of this Master IDIQ is to acquire vital contract support for the asset forfeiture process from the identification of specific assets for possible seizure, through the seizure, management, disposition, post-disposition and case closure. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to Investigative Analysis, Investigative Support, and Seized Property Analysis and Support.