1.5.1-FAR 13.5_SSJ_Certain Commercial Items Including Brand Name_May 2024_Clean_Redacted.pdf

This document is a Sole Source Justification for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract with Penlink for Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) software licenses. The contract is for Penlink's Tangles and Webloc databases, which provide intelligence gathering capabilities for HSI INTEL's investigations. The requirement aims to reduce manual review time by integrating location data from multiple sources, building event timelines, and correlating external events.

The contract includes Tangles Licenses, Additional 10 Monitors, Advanced Face Search, Face Detection, Objects/OCR/Landmark, and Dark Web Data Feed. Market research conducted in May and June 2025 identified two alternative vendors (Babel Street and Ventel), but neither met all of HSI INTEL's comprehensive web investigation and location-based data analysis needs. The contract is a firm-fixed price, with pricing details redacted, and is structured with a base period and an option year. The solicitation is law enforcement sensitive and will not be fully publicized to protect operational methods and agent safety.