PWS SIGAR Report Generation DRAFT.docx

Performance Work Statement

Report generation of persons of interest

Part 1 - General Information

1. Background:

SIGAR currently requires assistance in open-source research of records contained in international jurisdictions. The contractor shall provide required research using its access to ground networks in various jurisdictions to gather, synthesize and produce target record search results. Performing these functions are necessary to complete SIGAR’s congressional requested mission.

Congress created SIGAR to provide independent and objective oversight of Afghanistan reconstruction projects and activities. Under the authority of Section 1229 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (P.L. 110-181), SIGAR conducts audits and investigations to: 1) promote efficiency and effectiveness of reconstruction programs and 2) detect and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.

1.2 Objectives:

To better understand how SIGAR can utilize information and resources regarding the transfer of illicit sourced funds across multiple borders and jurisdictions into international assets, access to international record databases, and synthesis of various pieces of disparate data, the SME will identify and analyze targeted searches to assist in identifying potential leads tied to widespread flight of funds from Afghanistan and corruption. The SME will assist SIGAR criminal investigators by boosting response time and detection of illicit trails highlighting additional avenues of inquiry or suggesting alternative or additional efforts on emerging threats in the illicit financial flows and developing countries. This project will specifically examine SIGAR efforts in its Investigations Directorate to review, bolster and enhance SIGAR’s efforts in mandates and activities regarding the flight of capital from Afghanistan.

1.3 Scope:

The SME will provide targeted analytical research dossiers containing synthesized open-source intelligence from various foreign databases, and open-source data scrapes from the web. Each analytic report shall be designed to provide all relevant discoverable information on assets, holdings, and relationships of each person or entity of interest in a digestible format that may be shared with SIGAR’s interagency partners. Each analytical report shall contain results from the following:

· Current and historic international assets of the person or entity of interest, their association with natural persons and legal entities, including property, vehicles, luxury goods, and bank accounts where available.

· Personal identifying information (PII) for POI and their expanded networks, when available

· International commercial holdings and relationships of POI and their expanded networks, including shareholding or officer positions within companies and organizations.

· Travel information, including Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) flight tracking, AIS vessel tracking, visa information (where available), and other PAI.

· Other PAI deemed to be significant to the identification of either assets or illicit activity, including judicial records and derogatory reporting.

· Underlying documentation for each of the above, including but not limited to property deeds, tax records, annual reports, credit reports, or other relevant data held by the SME.

· Inclusion of results from international data resources from key jurisdictions including Afghanistan, the US, the UK, Switzerland, Turkey and the UAE

1.4 Period of Performance:

The period of performance shall be for: 4 months (120 days)

1.5 General Information:

1.6.1 Quality Control:

The Government shall develop and maintain an effective quality control program to ensure services are performed in accordance with this PWS. The Government shall develop and implement procedures to identify, prevent, and ensure non-recurrence of defective service.

1.6.2 Quality Assurance:

The Government shall evaluate the contractor’s performance under this contract is in accordance with the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP). This plan is primarily focused on what the Government must do to ensure the contractor has performed in accordance with the performance standards. It defines how the performance standards will be applied, the frequency of the surveillance, and the minimum acceptable defect rate(s).

1.6.3 Recognized Holidays:

The contractor should recognize all Federal Holidays.

1.6.4 Hours of Operations:

Work for this contract there are no set hours of operation.

1.6.5 Place of Performance:

The contractor analysis will be performed at the contractor’s place of business.

1.6.6 Type of Contract:

The Government will award a Firm Fixed Price contract and monthly invoices will be submitted on a per report basis.

1.6.7 Security Requirements:

The security aspects of this contractual effort are under the authority of the National Industrial Security Program and, as such the Defense Security Service.

Security Clearance required: Public Trust

Anti-Terrorism guidelines:

AT Level I Training: This provision/contract text is for contractor employees with an area of performance within an Army controlled installation, facility or area. All contractor employees, to include subcontractor employees, requiring access to Army installations, facilities and controlled access areas shall complete AT Level I awareness training within five calendar days after contract start date or effective date of incorporation of this requirement into the contract, whichever is applicable. The contractor shall submit certificates of completion for each affected contractor employee and subcontractor employee, to the COR or to the contracting officer. AT level I awareness training is available at the following website: https://atlevel1.dtic.mil/at.

AT Awareness Training for contractor Personnel Traveling Overseas: This standard language text requires US based contractor employees and associated sub-contractor employees to make available and to receive government provided area of responsibility (AOR) specific AT awareness training as directed by AR 525-13. Specific AOR training content is directed by the combatant commander with the unit ATO being the local point of contact.

Contractor Employees Who Require Access to Government Information Systems: All contractor employees with access to a government info system must be registered in the ATCTS (Army Training Certification Tracking System) at commencement of services and must successfully complete the DOD Information Assurance Awareness prior to access to the IS and then annually thereafter.

For Contracts that Require OPSEC Training: Per AR 530-1, Operations Security, new contractor employees must complete Level I OPSEC training within 30 calendar days of their reporting for duty. All contractor employees must complete annual OPSEC awareness training.

For Information assurance (IA)/information technology (IT) training: All contractor employees and associated sub-contractor employees must complete the DoD IA awareness training before issuance of network access and annually thereafter. All contractor employees working IA/IT functions must comply with DoD and Army training requirements in DoD 8570.01, DoD 8570.01-M and AR 25-2 within six months of employment.

For Contracts That Require Handling or Access to Classified Information: contractor shall comply with FAR 52.204-2, Security Requirements. This clause involves access to information classified “Confidential,” “Secret,” or “Top Secret” and requires contractors to comply with— (1) The Security Agreement (DD Form 441), including the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (DoD 5220.22-M); any revisions to DOD 5220.22-M, notice of which has been furnished to the contractor.

Performance of this contract may require the contractor to access data and information proprietary to the Government or of such a nature that its dissemination or use, other than in performance of this contract, would be adverse to the interests of the Government or others. The contractor shall not divulge or release data or information developed or obtained in performance of this contract, except to authorize government personnel or upon written approval of the Contracting Officer.

The contractor shall not use, disclose, or reproduce propriety data, other than as required in the performance of this contract. The limitations above do not apply to data or information that has been made public by the Government. Further, these limitations do not preclude the use of any data acquired independently by the contractor without such limitations or prohibit an agreement at no cost to the Government between the contractor and the data owner that provides for greater rights to the contractor.

All products produced by the contractor during the course of this contract and associated work papers are to be considered the property of the Government.

1.6.7.1 Physical Security:

The contractor shall be responsible for safeguarding all government equipment, information and property for contractor use.

1.6.7.2 Lock Combination/Personnel Identification:

The contractor shall be responsible for safeguarding all lock combinations and personal identification cards issued to the contractor. Upon departure of SIGAR the contractor shall turn in all keys and identification cards.

1.6.8 Post Award Conference/Periodic Progress Meetings:

The Contracting Officer, Contracting Officer Representative (COR), and other government personnel, as appropriate, may meet periodically with the contractor to review the contractor’s performance. At these meetings the contracting officer will apprise the contractor of how the government views the contractor’s performance and the contractor will apprise the Government of any problems, if any, being experienced. Appropriate action shall be taken to resolve outstanding issues. The contractor agrees to attend any post award conferences convened by the contracting activity or contract administration office in accordance with FAR Subpart 42.5. The contractor should prepare for recurring weekly progress meetings with SIGAR staff. These meetings shall be at no additional cost to the government and are based on SIGAR’s request for such meetings.

1.6.9 Key Personnel:

Analyst Program Manager

1.6.11 Payment for Unauthorized Work:

No payments will be made for any unauthorized supplies and/or services or for any unauthorized changes to the work specified herein. This includes any services performed by the contractor or its personnel without prior authorization by the Contracting Officer. Only a duly appointed Contracting Officer is authorized to change the specifications, terms, and conditions under this effort.

1.6.12 Dissemination of Information/Publishing:

There shall be no dissemination or publication of information, except within and between the contractor and specified who have a need to know, of information developed under this order or contained in the reports to be furnished pursuant to this order without prior written approval of the Contracting Officer. SIGAR approval for publication will require provisions which protect the intellectual property rights of both SIGAR and the contractor.

1.6.13 Non-Disclosure /Non-Use Agreement:

The contractor shall ensure that the Non-Disclosure Statement is signed by all staff assigned to or performing on this Task order before performing any work, including all subcontractors and consultants. The Non-Disclosure / Non-Use statement will be cosigned by a corporate official (contractor Task Manager or higher). The contractor shall also ensure that all staff understand and adhere to the terms of the non-disclosure statement, protecting the procurement sensitive information of the Government and the proprietary information of other contractors. Assignment of contractor employees who have not executed this statement or failure to adhere to this statement shall constitute default on the part of the contractor.

1.6.14 Organizational Conflict of Interest:

Contractor and subcontractor personnel performing work under this contract may receive, have access to or participate in the development of proprietary or source selection information (e.g., cost or pricing information, budget information or analyses, specifications or work statements, etc.) or perform evaluation services which may create a current or subsequent Organizational Conflict of Interests (OCI) as defined in FAR Subpart 9.5. The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer immediately whenever it becomes aware that such access or participation may result in any actual or potential OCI and shall promptly submit a plan to the Contracting Officer to avoid or mitigate any such OCI. The Contractor’s mitigation plan will be determined to be acceptable solely at the discretion of the Contracting Officer and in the event the Contracting Officer unilaterally determines that any such OCI cannot be satisfactorily avoided or mitigated, the Contracting Officer may affect other remedies as he or she deems necessary, including prohibiting the Contractor from participation in subsequent contracted requirements which may be affected by the OCI. SIGAR will also have the right to look at other organizations any employee or sub-contractor is working for to determine if there is a conflict of interest.

1.6.15 Data Rights

The Government has unlimited rights to all documents/material produced under this contract. All documents and materials produced under this contract shall be Government owned and are the property of the Government with all rights and privileges of ownership/copyright belonging exclusively to the Government. These documents and materials may not be used or sold by the contractor without written permission from the Contracting Officer. All materials supplied to the Government shall be the sole property of the Government and may not be used for any other purpose. This right does not abrogate any other Government rights.

1.6.16 Records Management

PART 2 – Government Furnished Property, Equipment, and Services

SIGAR will not provide any government furnished property.

PART 3 –Specific Tasks

The contractor shall provide the following:

· Provide 25 reports of persons of interest, given to the contractor by SIGAR. Reports will be formatted in the agreed format.

· First Ten reports will be delivered 30 days after contract award.

· The last fifteen reports will be delivered 60 days after contract award.

As required by SIGAR

All deliverables shall be provided in electronic format to the Contracting Officer’s Representative. Unless otherwise instructed by the Contracting Officer’s Representative, deliverables shall be provided as an email attachment.

Monthly progress reports shall be submitted to the Technical Point of Contact for billing. Progress reports will be required when SIGAR uses the contractor for work performed.

· 4.1 Status reports to be delivered bi-weekly or whenever requested by SIGAR– to include:

· activities planned for the following month (to include, but not limited to, research tasks, documents submitted for review, milestones, and briefings);

· a list of interviews that are scheduled or have been completed (Note: potential interviews should be provided to SIGAR at least seven business days ahead of any attempt to reach out to the interviewee to set up the interview in order to allow SIGAR to de-conflict interview requests);

· issues impeding progress and resolutions to conflicts.

· any personnel changes (Contractor accountability reports); and

PART 4 – Performance Objectives:

The contractor’s performance for all deliverables will be measured against the performance objectives identified in the Service Delivery Summary below, as well as any additional Performance Standards listed under individual PWS subsections:

2) Periodic Assessment

3) Monthly Progress Report.

-The contractor’s Monthly Progress Report shall address any specific tasks where items 2 or 3 cited in the remedy section for this Performance Measures are or were required.

1) Contractor re-performs task if errors in fact identified before customer’s suspense.

2) Contractor re-performs task to correct errors in fact identified after customer’s suspense at no additional cost if Government determines task can be redone in a timely manner to support Government decision or action without significant adverse impact.

3) Contracting Officer’s Representative shall document any tasks and associated circumstances where a) the contractor submits errors in fact; b) the Government determines the contractor cannot re-perform the task in a timely manner to correct said errors and support government decisions or action; and c) the Government determines the use of the erroneous information or lack of timely provided correct information caused as significant adverse impact. The Contracting Officer shall immediately notify the contractor in writing of the Government’s assessment if this occurs. The contractor shall provide a written response to such notices within 10 calendar days addressing its’ planned corrective action.

2) Periodic Assessment

3) Monthly Progress Report

-The contractor’s Monthly Progress Report shall address any specific tasks where items 2 or 3 cited in the remedy section for this Performance Measures are or were required.

1) Contractor re-performs task if errors in fact identified before customer’s suspense.

2) Contractor re-performs task to correct errors in fact identified after customer’s suspense at no additional cost if Government determines task can be redone in a timely manner to support Government decision or action without significant adverse impact.

3) Contracting Officer’s Representative shall document any tasks and associated circumstances where a) the contractor submits errors in fact; b) the Government determines the contractor cannot re-perform the task in a timely manner to correct said errors and support government decisions or action; and c) the Government determines the use of the erroneous information or lack of timely provided correct information caused as significant adverse impact. The Contracting Officer shall immediately notify the contractor in writing of the Government’s assessment if this occurs. The contractor shall provide a written response to such notices within 10 calendar days addressing its’ planned corrective action.

- The contractor’s Monthly cost and schedule status report shall identify contractor’s spending plan, monthly burn rate, and cumulative expenses to date.

If the cumulative expenses are more than 5% higher than the projected expenses to date, the contractor shall provide a complete analysis of the reasons for the variance, the corrective actions that will be taken, and the most likely estimate at completion (EAC) for the current option period.

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