On
October 4, the U.S. Army posted an RFI for Social Media/Open-source intelligence
(OSINT) Exploitation. Responses
are due no later than Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 10:00 AM EST.
This is a Request for Information (RFI) from the United
States (U.S.) Army Contracting Command (ACC) – New Jersey (NJ) located at Fort
Dix. ACC-NJ is surveying the market for potential contractors capable of
satisfying the subject requirement for Social Media/Open-source intelligence
(OSINT) Exploitation in support of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command
(CIDC). The period of performance for this requirement will be for one 12 month
base year plus two 12 month option years.
The contractor shall provide an Internet based service to
provide worldwide web-based access to reliable social media threat analytics
service, also referred to as a Softwareas-a-Service (SaaS) solution required
for use in criminal investigations and the other missions conducted by the
CIDC. Administration of the service will be done from Headquarters, USACIDC,
Quantico, VA, with users located throughout the US and overseas where there is
a USACIDC presence. This SaaS solution shall provide a secure and legal social
media threat detection and risk mitigation. The SaaS solution shall be software
based with subscription service to support organizations’ ability to quickly
unlock the value of social media and big data to assess risk, respond to threats,
and discover actionable intelligence. The specifications are as follows:
1. There should be the capability to set up unlimited
individual user accounts with unlimited queries available -The SaaS must be web
based. No hardware or software to install.
2. The software and service must cover all major social
networking services. Understanding that technology is always changing, the
service should search against all social media that allows public access (i.e.,
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, etc.)
3. The service will be capable of conducting queries by
various methods, including but not limited to keyword, location-based, Meta
data queries.
4. Vendor shall state whether or not they will be retaining
the data or if the vendor will allow the CIDC to retain the data.
5. The software and service must have the capability to
download the results of the query in a format that will allow for
visualization/link analysis (.csv).
6. There shall be the capability of visualization and/or
link analysis tool provided to facilitate analysis of the data. This function
shall also allow for the integration of the CIDC’s internal data.
7. The software and service should allow for the search of
archived data gathered as a result of established queries/on-going collection
efforts.
8. The software and service should have the capability for
the customer administrators to establish user accounts and set user permissions
(role-based controls). The administrators should also have the ability to
conduct audits of users search histories and current collection efforts.
9. The vendor shall provide a training program that teaches
attendees on how to effectively utilize the SaaS to exploit social media
sources. Training will be provided on-site or through an appropriate Internet
platform.
10.Technical support must be available from 0800 to 2000, Monday-Friday EST.
Full information is available here.
Source: FedBizOpps
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