1014-JEFO-Penlink-redacted 81324.pdf
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This document is a federal contract solicitation for Pen-Link PLX, a data collection and analysis tool used by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS CI) Digital Forensics division to support law enforcement intercepts and investigations. The solicitation, numbered FY24_PENLINKX, is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside to be awarded as a Firm-Fixed Price, Single Award Contract under NAICS code 541519 with a $34 million size standard.
The solicitation is seeking to procure licenses, software, and support services for the Pen-Link PLX system, which is used to normalize and analyze data from various sources including call detail records, cell tower dumps, social media, and email. Key requirements include the ability to handle diverse data formats, provide geolocation mapping and analysis capabilities, and offer a unified platform for both data collection and analysis. Offers are due by August 21, 2024, and the incumbent contract number is 2091JB-22-F-00084. The procurement will be awarded using the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable method to represent the best value to the government.
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| ATTACHMENT 3 CLAUSES AND PROVISIONS 813.pdf |
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Treasury Standard Form – 1014 (Rev 9/23)
Prescribed by Treasury: DTAP 1016.505 ongoing criminal investigations.
In conjunction with accomplishing their law enforcement mission, IRS CI Digital Forensics must support execute law enforcement IP and cellular intercepts. Typically, these intercepts are header only, containing the “to” and “from” in a conversation. In addition, once data is collected, a tool designed to handle large quantities of “header” captures is utilized to provide an analytical view of the data. The collection tool must handle different formats such as CBIS and data streams implemented to support CALEA. Pen-Link PLX supports both the collection and the analytical portion. In addition, it supports CBIS, SIP, and CALEA streams.
PLX supports both telephone and internet, historical and live data. PLX supports both communications collection and analysis needs in one unified platform.
Normalize data from hundreds of diverse data sources.
Customize analytical functions and reports without limit.
Identify commonalities and patterns of behavior.
Calculate frequencies with custom filters and grouping.
PLX offers a one-step Autoload process, capable of automatically loading an extensive set of proprietary service provider file formats, coupled with the ability to load any combination of file types simultaneously. Examples of files supported include:
Call detail records (CDRs)
Cell tower dumps and Google geofences
RTT data
Cell phone forensic extractions (UFED, XRY, and more)
Social media search warrant returns (Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and more)
Email search warrant returns (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Hushmail, and more)
PLX’s unified map offers a comprehensive set of functions to input, analyze, and present a wide variety of geolocation data that Digital Forensics may collect for an investigation, including:
Map any record type: Cell Sector Usage, Range to Tower (RTT), Location Pings, Subscriber
Addresses, IP
Addresses, Snapchat Geolocations, Google Geofence data, EXIF data extracted from images, Facebook Locations, and much more.
Identify patterns of movement over time.
Customize your maps to display nearby cell towers, create places of interest, hide or display any location on the map, and more.
Share results with other investigators.
There are many small business resellers capable of filling the order for Pen-Link PLX.
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