SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Lawful Intercept Mediation Management System with a Communication Collection System
- Notice Date
- 8/18/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334210
— Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Acquisition Management, None, Washington, District of Columbia, 20537
- ZIP Code
- 20537
- Solicitation Number
- DJD-11-N-0036
- Archive Date
- 9/2/2011
- Point of Contact
- Rebecca Stegall, Phone: 202-307-1323
- E-Mail Address
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rebecca.v.stegall@usdoj.gov
(rebecca.v.stegall@usdoj.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR MARKET RESEARCH ONLY TO DETERMINE IF SMALL BUSINESSES ARE CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THE REQUIREMENT DESCRIBED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. The Drug Enforcement Administration requires a Lawful Intercept Mediation Management System with a Communication Collection System, as one turnkey system. Such a system may be referred to as a Lawful Interception Management System and a Transcription and Translation Support System (T2S2). The NAICS code is 334210 Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing. The Small Business Size Standard in Number of Employees is 1000. The turnkey system shall serve as the centralized provisioning, mediation management and communication collection system. The turnkey system shall maintain a central database of all warrants issued by the Country of El Salvador. Once warrants are entered into the mediation management client the system shall automatically provision the warrant to the appropriate Lawful Intercept Mediation systems at a local Telecommunication Operator facility. In return, the Telecommunication Operator will deliver data and voice back to the turnkey system. The turnkey system shall seamlessly ingest data (HI2/X2) and voice (HI3/X3) received from local Telecommunications Operators. Once data and voice is delivered to the turnkey system, the turnkey system shall have the ability to perform live monitoring (i.e., listening to and recording of live telephone sessions, etc.), archive all intercepted communications to media suitable for evidence and retrieve that evidence for processing, sealing, or presentation to the court, and the ability to call up upon demand, transcribes, translate, and review within a reasonable time frame playback of intercepted communication. The turnkey system shall include, but not limited to, supporting hardware, software, warranties, service, maintenance, training, upgrades, enhancements, options, and engineering services (laboratory development and onsite support for all installations, upgrades, or equipment failures) throughout the life of the contract. The turnkey system shall have the capability to interface seamlessly with all proprietary handover interface requirements from multi platform LI solutions, and unifying multiple lawful intercept solutions such as but not limited to Lawful Intercept Solutions (LIS) supporting Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, Italtell, Teligent, Juniper, Cisco and Packet Forensics hardware. The specific program objectives are as follows: · To provide a turnkey system used to provision court ordered warrants, and serve as a centralized delivery point for all local Telecommunications Operators · To provide a turnkey system to serve as a Lawful Intercept Mediation System to small locally owned Internet Service Providers (ISP) serving less than approximately 10% of El Salvador's internet service. · To provide an easy to use interface for entering new warrants, secure access, integrity check of network paths, advanced alarm notifications of any malfunctions or incorrect warrant information and prevent possible manipulation and misuse of intercepted information. · To provide a turnkey system an interface with multiple LI solution platforms from local Telecommunications Service Provider (TSP) or Internet Service Providers (ISP). · To provide a turnkey system to collect and producing evidence-quality recordings and logs of activity of intercepted transmissions and/or data made or received by telephones, mobile telephones, computers, other handheld electronic devices, VoIP/packet data based audio and other forms of IP communications, SMS/Text messaging, pagers, fax machines, etc., as utilized by targets of criminal investigations. · To provide a turnkey system with capabilities to interface seamlessly with all proprietary handover interfaces (HI1, HI2 and HI3) and unifying multiple lawful intercept systems such as but not limited to Lawful Intercept Solutions (LIS) from Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, Italtell, Teligent, Juniper, Cisco and Packet Forensics. · To provide a turnkey system to intercept and perform live monitoring (i.e., listening to and recording of live telephone sessions, etc.). · To provide a turnkey system with the ability to archive all intercepted communications to media suitable for evidence and retrieve that evidence for processing, sealing, or presentation to the court. · To provide a turnkey system with the ability to call up upon demand, transcribes, translate, and review within a reasonable time frame playback of intercepted communication. Based upon evaluation of responses received by the closing date of this announcement, the government reserves the right to set-aside any and all procurements that may result hereunder for small or minority-owned businesses; or to open the follow-on solicitation to full and open competition if no small businesses are deemed capable of performing the required services. At a minimum, information furnished shall include: Defined and specific operating guidelines and requirements, which comprehensively address all infrastructure issues impacting the normal functioning of the system and its various subcomponents. These operating guidelines and requirements shall include but not be limited to: 1) Network bandwidth requirements. 2) Electrical power requirements. 3) Environmental operating ranges for temperature and humidity. 4) Physical space requirements. 5) System component BTU generation and its associated cooling requirements. Description of system functionality over the country of El Salvador's network communication infrastructure. Details of the system architecture shall show capability of connecting, exchanging information and communicating (passing of data/audio) with other anticipated lawful intercept mediation systems from other entities. A configuration around a centralized core at which all evidence shall be collected, stored and reconstructed. All data, content, and work product collected or reconstructed throughout the network shall ultimately be delivered and stored at a designated area. System characteristics (Operating System, Intercept Software, Word Processing Software, etc.) fully compliant with all Department of Justice regulations regarding Certification and Accreditation (DOJ Order 2640.2(series), Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security). The turnkey system shall be compliant with the most current regulation at no additional cost to the government. A series of wizard tools to facilitate the performance of repetitive processes such as user account establishment and de-activation including deletion of home folders and user profiles, establishment and de-activation of interceptions, renewal or extensions of interceptions, archival verification and evidence finalization and removal, exporting for discovery, normal maintenance procedures, etc. Suggested architecture to provide a secure, verifiable, and is defensible in court upon challenge by defense counsel. Minimum capabilities must include documented evidence of experience and expertise in all of the following areas: A. System configuration with a similar infrastructure to support a multi platform lawful intercept and collection system in a centralized location. B. Demonstrate ability to deliver timely and effective implementation and technical assistance within the timeline required. C. Demonstrate experience in providing state-of-the-art technology to integrate multi platform LI infrastructures with a turnkey system to provision, receive and collect intercepted data. D. Demonstrate activities to keep pace with the industry technical changes and challenges. Capability Statements shall be submitted by small businesses with these capabilities who are interested in performing the proposed effort. Capability Statement is limited to 15 pages or less; please do not include marketing materials. Please list company points of contact including e-mail, regular mail address, and telephone number(s). Please identify whether your business is a small business, small disadvantaged business, (8a) concern, woman-owned business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business or HUB Zone small business. If you send your Capability Statement via e-mail, preferred file formats include.doc,.txt, and.pdf. Electronic files can be no larger than 4mb. E-mail submissions should be submitted to Rebecca.V.Stegall@usdoj.gov. The subject line of your e-mail should read: Capability Statement- Lawful Intercept Mediation. Capability Statements may be mailed to: Drug Enforcement Administration Attn: Rebecca Stegall (E-8367) 8701 Morrissette Drive Springfield, VA 22152 Capability Statements must be received no later than 2:00 PM Eastern Time on 09/01/2011. The Small Business Administration may be used to verify business size. Note: This announcement is a Sources Sought Notice only and does not obligate Drug Enforcement Administration in any way. This is NOT a request for proposal and the Drug Enforcement Administration will NOT pay for any information submitted or for and expenses associated with providing information. Any information submitted by respondents to this Sources Sought Notice is strictly voluntary. Any proprietary material submitted must be marked as such.
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