Presolicitation
DHS S&T FALCON Program
140D0426R0062
Departmental Offices, Ibc Acq SVCS Directorate. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology).
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Description
As published on SAM.gov.
Procurement Office: The Department of the Interior (DOI) ¿ Interior Business Center (IBC), 381 Elden Street, Suite 4000, Herndon, VA 20170
Response Due Date: 6/3/2026 by 5:00 PM EST
NOTICE OF INTENT SYNOPSIS: The Department of the Interior, Interior Business Center, Herndon Acquisition Services Directorate, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), intends to award a contract to Vantor Services Inc, on a sole source basis. The intended procurement is classified under NAICS Code 541715. This is a sole source procurement under the authority of Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) 6.103, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.
This acquisition is conducted under the procedures described in FAR Part 15.
Description:
DHS Forecasting and Analytics for Law Enforcement Operations and Networks (FALCON)
Purpose and Objective:
The IBC anticipates award of a single, stand-alone contract to Vantor Services Inc., with three Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs) for labor and three Cost type CLINs for Other Direct Costs (ODCs). This requirement provides an essential analytics capability to support the Customs and Border Protection¿s (CBP) and United States Coast Guard¿s (USCG) critical operational needs to detect illicit activities occurring within and across the U.S. borders. The objective of this acquisition is to further develop and integrate an analytic environment, which includes necessary information technology (IT) infrastructure (classified and unclassified), applications, data science, and analytic methodologies, to perform spatiotemporal analytics, providing real time detection and reporting of illicit activities within and between multiple in domains, using streaming data sources at scale.
Rationale for Sole Source: Vantor Services Inc. is the only source capable of providing the necessary shared resources, algorithms, data, source code, and interoperability required for this acquisition.
Period of Performance: Three years from date of award
Place of Performance: The effort will be performed at the contractor¿s facilities.
This notice of intent to award a sole source contract is NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. A SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED.
However, in accordance with RFO 5.101(c)(4)(vi), all responsible sources that feel they can meet the Government's requirements detailed above may submit a quotation, bid, or proposal, as appropriate, which will be considered by the agency. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirements, and include the interested parties¿ Unique Entity ID (UEI). All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM), www.sam.gov.
A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will be retained as Market Research.
All responses must be received by 5:00 pm EST on Tuesday, 6/3/2026 and must reference solicitation number 140D0426R0062. Responses may be submitted electronically to Kevin Woody via email at kevin_woody@ibc.doi.gov.
Attachments
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- Notice_of_Intent_to_Sole_Source_1.pdf100 KB, May 19, 2026
The contract, on USAspending
Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.
- Recipient
- Vantor Services Inc.
- UEI
- FUYKYYM9YCQ9
- CAGE
- 3M4K0
- Vendor location
- Herndon, VA
- Contract
- 140D0427C0152, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $4,398,854.96, current value $20,997,090
- Actions
- 1 between October 23, 2026 and October 23, 2026
- Competition
- Not Competed, 1 offer received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Expanding the Implementation of AI / ML to Perform Forensic Analysis of Historic and New Data to Identify Extremely Low Frequency Suspect Activities Not Currently Known to Be Occurring.
- Match
- solicitation number 140D0426R0062 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 140D04 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
May 19, 2026
Presolicitation
Due June 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT. SAM.gov, notice 4ca1ec8695b34792a805ec7688b2e485
1 revisions on SAM
- May 19, 2026: publish, presolicitation
Points of contact
- Woody, KevinKEVIN_WOODY@IBC.DOI.GOV7039643568