FDA Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Undercover Online Operations Training
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- OII-2025-126039
- Agency
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FDA Office of Acquisition and Grant Services
Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- Total Small Business
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 611519 Other Technical and Trade Schools
- PSC
- U009 Education/Training- General
- Place of performance
- Rockville, Maryland, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) is seeking to procure technical training for its cybercrime criminal investigators to enable them to effectively conduct undercover online operations. The key objectives of the training course include building and maintaining undercover online identities, collecting digital evidence, and exploiting digital transactions to track illicit funds. The agency is requesting information from small businesses, including HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, 8(a), and woman-owned small businesses, that could provide a 5-day advanced training course for up to 16 OCI agents. Responses to the Sources Sought Notice are due by November 15, 2024, and the agency will use this information to determine the appropriate acquisition method, including the possibility of a set-aside.
The contract is designated as a total small business set-aside, and the training is to be provided on a firm-fixed price basis. The total price for the training course is to be included in the capability statement. While no incumbent contractors or potential award values are specified, the agency has identified the NAICS code as 611519 - Other Technical and Trade Schools, and the PSC code as U009 - Education/Training- General.
Notice text
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) is looking to procure technical training to seasoned cybercrime criminal investigators to further its ongoing efforts to counter the widespread illicit trafficking and/or marketing of FDA-regulated products over the Internet. The training course shall enable specialized OCI agents to operate safely and effectively online when conducting undercover (UC) investigations as well as teach how to identify digital assets utilized by the suspect/s and how to seize such assets.
The objectives of the training course shall include:
• how to identify targets and how/when to properly initiate contact and build relationships
• creating, building, and maintaining long term UC identities, known as legends
• how to properly collect evidence as leads are developed, and conversations initiated
• how to exploit avenues of digital transactions in order to follow the flow of funds for seizure and suspect identification including collecting payments and paying for supporting services using cryptocurrency and other digitally based monetary instruments (CashApp, Venmo, PayPal, etc)
• how to best maintain UC accounts such as social media, blogging, shell companies and websites that can be utilized as field cases dictate
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