SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - PAEI REPORTS
- Notice Date
- 6/11/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Office of Personnel Management, Federal Investigative Service, PIC Acquisitions Team, Ft. Meade, 601 10th Street, Suite 310, Ft. Meade, Maryland, 20755-5134
- ZIP Code
- 20755-5134
- Solicitation Number
- FM15-0092
- Archive Date
- 6/30/2015
- Point of Contact
- Joyce A. Bland, Phone: (443) 698-9110
- E-Mail Address
-
joyce.bland@opm.gov
(joyce.bland@opm.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- It is the intention of the agency to award a firm-fixed price agreement to Social Intelligence for publicly available electronic information (PAEI) reports. This is not a solicitation for quotations, but rather a notice of the agency's intent to make a sole source award to Social Intelligence. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Federal Investigative Services (FIS) seeks to award a firm-fixed price agreement to Social Intelligence who will conduct searches of multiple sources of PAEI in an automated manner and provide complete, accurate, standardized reports to OPM-FIS when searches result in information pertinent to Subjects of Investigation. OPM-FIS is participating in a set of pilot projects with other federal investigative service providers to evaluate the use of PAEI in the background investigative process. This acquisition will provide 400 PAEI reports over a period of approximately 6-9 months for a sample population of investigations to assess the OPM-FIS operational end-to-end process and relevancy to the investigation along with the effects of quality, costs and timeliness. The vendor must also provide high level training on how to review and analyze the PAEI reports and also provide customer and technical support 24x7 until 400 PAEI reports have been provided to OPM-FIS. Social Intelligence is the only source that possesses knowledge and expertise obtained through participation in other high level government PAEI pilot projects, to include pilots with the U.S. Army, the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of State and the National Reconnaissance Office. Social Intelligence is the only one available whose product will result in a consistent and accurate comparative analysis between results of the OPM-FIS pilot and other government agencies' pilots. This vendor's personnel have experience with and have received training on the personnel security process and the thirteen adjudicative guidelines due to participation in previous government pilots. Such experience is required in order to appropriately identify issues containing relevant adjudicative information. Only data that meets the adjudicative guidelines will be collected and retained by OPM-FIS. This vendor was deemed a consumer reporting agency (CRA) by the Federal Trade Commission, as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. As of January 2013, the vendor was the only social media background screening company designated as a CRA. This designation is important as the FTC has ruled that CRAs must take reasonable steps to ensure the maximum possible accuracy of the information reported from social media sites. All of the above make Social Intelligence a unique source that would provide the best solution with the least risk to the government for this pilot.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/OPM/FISD-B/MD-FM/FM15-0092/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal Investigative Services, 601 10th Street, Fort Meade, Maryland, 20755, United States
- Zip Code: 20755
- Zip Code: 20755
- Record
- SN03761555-W 20150613/150611235348-db4cc3807a63ba2113a91b6ae556b5b0 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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