Intent to Sole Source Notice 192125POD000P0009.pdf

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE

SOL: 192125POD000P0009

DUE: 12/10/24

SET ASIDE:

N/A

NAICS: 513210

AGENCY: AGENCY: The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Protective Service (FPS). 800 NORTH CAPITOL NORTH WASHINGTON, DC 20002.

POC: Steven Abbey: Steven.Abbeyii@FPS.DHS.gov

DESCRIPTION: NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT TO

Digital Vertex Federal, LLC. of Annapolis Junction, MD. This will be a base plus four option years for SITE Intelligence Group's SourceFeed/SearchFeed and Enterprise products.

This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b) (1)(ii), “Soliciting from a Single Source.” The NAICS code utilized for this procurement is 519290 Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services with a Size Standard of 1,000 Employees.

This Notice of Intent is not a request for Proposals or Quotations. No solicitation document exists, and no telephone or email inquiries will be accepted. No contract award will be made on the basis of proposals, or quotations received in response to this notice.

Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement and should furnish detailed data concerning their capabilities to provide services sought including pricing data and technical data sufficient enough to determine that a comparable source to the government is available.

The government may consider all Expressions of Interest received prior to December 10, 2024. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.

Responses to this notice must be emailed to Steven.Abbeyii@FPS.DHS.gov and received by 16:00 hours EST on December 10, 2024. Submitters are responsible for ensuring their EOI reaches the designated contracting officer on-time.

mailto:Steven.Abbeyii@FPS.DHS.gov

Special Notice

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

FOR

FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE (FPS)

SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP MONITORING SERVICE

1.1. Background

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Protective Service (FPS) has a need to secure the services of a vendor for non-directed finished intelligence products at the Unclassified level and intelligence source information to enable mitigation of threats to FPS protected federal facilities. Specifically, FPS has a need for finished intelligence products in the Jihadist Threat, Far-Right/Far-Left, and Guide Tracker subject matter areas and Source Feed/Search Feed intelligence source capabilities in the Jihadist Threat and Far-Right/Far-Left subject matter areas.

1.2 Organization

1.2.1 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS).

1.3 Scope

The scope of this acquisition is to provide professional non-directed finished intelligence products to disseminate critical and sensitive operational information to support the Federal Protective Service (FPS). The Contract Holder shall provide the intelligence products, excluding inherently governmental functions, utilizing all applicable regulations and local procedures, to perform work at the Unclassified level.

The desired solution is to be a service, not a system, which addresses considerations such as the completion of a Privacy Threshold Assessment; and, if needed, a Privacy Impact Analysis.

Furthermore, the solution shall not target specific individuals or populations, as is generally performed in marketing-type analysis. Lastly, the service provider must be able to lawfully collect the information provided as part of the service; and document such collection and data access agreements.

The Contracted vendor shall provide a commercially available subscription to user accounts to provide non-directed finished intelligence products and access to intelligence source material.

The Vendor shall deliver these products and source materials to users based on vendor-defined or predefined topics and subject matter areas of interest via user-defined delivery methods, including email, web-based application, and mobile platforms.

2.0 Requirements/Specific Tasks

FPS has a requirement for a subscription to a service that will provide non-directed finished intelligence products in specific subject matter areas that have a potential impact on the security of FPS protected federal facilities to which FPS may need to respond. The intelligence products are sourced from publicly available data, information, and materials, including public messaging or tweets and other public content made available through Twitter, Inc. and other social media and public message boards (collectively, the “Third Party Materials”), and made available to users via multiple mechanisms including email and dashboard-style interfaces.

The Contractor shall provide User access via a subscription to finished intelligence products and related source material in specific subject matter areas of interest to FPS.

The Contractor’s service must have the ability to provide non-directed finished intelligence products in the subject matter areas of Jihadist Threat, Far-Right/Far-Left, and GuideTracker and SourceFeed/SearchFeed intelligence source capabilities in the Jihadist Threat and Far-Right/Far- Left subject matter areas.

The Contractor’s service shall be able to screen and source a multitude of internet and dark web based open sources, conduct analysis, and produce finished intelligence products based upon the findings.

The service shall provide these products and intelligence source information ensuring FPS personnel will be able to maintain a proactive situational awareness posture and a comprehensive view of events which may be used as the predicate basis for a preliminary investigation.

The desired solution shall allow users to easily provide finished intelligence products to FPS personnel in the field, as well as provide intelligence source material related to the investigative needs of FPS.

The Contractor’s service shall provide the ability to efficiently and effectively access and disseminate non-directed finalized intelligence products to end users within FPS.

The Contractor’s user web-based dashboard interfaces and email or text notifications must be fully compatible with the FPS enterprise environment.

The Contractor shall be an Official Twitter Data Partner. As described by Twitter on its partner’s page. That is, the vendor must be a certified Official Twitter Data Partner providing a solution specifically designed for the Public Sector.

The Contractor shall provide user support, training, and enablement services to ensure successful deployment and adoption of the service’s full range of capabilities, at no additional cost.

The Contractor must be able to lawfully collect the information provided as part of the service;

and document such collection and data access agreements. The service to be provided must have the ability to scan open-source postings, looking for words, phrases, and other trends without targeting specific individuals and/or groups of people and utilize that information in the production of finalized intelligence products.

The Contractor service shall be able to triage source data for importance and/or urgency in the production of intelligence products.

The Contractor services shall provide FPS users and administrators with the ability to directly access finished intelligence products in the Jihadist Threat, Far-Right/Far-Left and GuideTracker subject areas.

The Contractor must maintain compliance with data providers’ terms of service. In addition, the service must include product modifications, safeguards and restrictions that prevent any use for surveillance purposes.

The Contractor must be able to provide a minimum of five (5) individual user accounts initially.

The Contractor should have the capacity to scale up to serve a larger volume of users.

3.0 GOVERNMENT ACCEPTANCE PERIOD

The Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) will review deliverables prior to acceptance:

and provide the Contractor with an email that provides any documented reasons for non-acceptance. If the deliverable is acceptable, the COR will send an email to the Contractor notifying that the deliverable has been accepted. The COR will have the right to reject or require correction of any deficiencies found in the deliverables that are contrary to the information contained in the Contractor’s accepted proposal. In the event of a rejected deliverable, the Contractor will be notified in writing by the Contracting Officer (CO) of the specific reasons for rejection. The Contractor shall have an opportunity to correct the rejected deliverable and return it per delivery instructions.

4.0 CONTRACTOR LIABILITY

In the event the Contractor damages any software or equipment under this effort due to negligence of any type, the Contractor will be responsible for the replacement cost.

5.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The Period of Performance will consist of a Base Year and four (4) Option Years extended to 2030.

6.0 DELIVERY

Upon contract award, the COR will provide the Contractor with the name and email address of authorized account holders. Information regarding these accounts may be sent directly to the user with a copy electronically delivered to the COR: Delivery / access will be given to FPS after award but no later than thirty (30) days after the award date.

7. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

The contractor shall provide subscription services for non-directed finished intelligence products at the Unclassified level and intelligence source information to enable mitigation of threats to FPS protected federal facilities. Specifically, FPS has a need for finished intelligence products in the Jihadist Threat, Far-Right/Far-Left, and Guide-Tracker subject matter areas and Source Feed/Search Feed intelligence source capabilities in the Jihadist Threat and Far-Right/Far-Left subject matter areas that can be made available to users via multiple mechanisms including email and dashboard-style interfaces.

8. CONTRACT TYPE

It is the Government’s intention to award a fixed price purchase order.