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B -- TAGALOG LANGUAGE SOURCES SOL MDA90800T0048 DUE 090800 POC Kevin Pryor (202) 231-2878 WEB: none, none. E-MAIL: none, pryor_kevin@hotmail.com. The Virginia Contracting Activity on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), is issuing a combined synopsizing/soliciting sources to focus on Tagalog language sources, provide daily updates on terrorist activities, use or acquisition of CBRN materials, arrests, official sponsorship, operating tactics, and public pronouncements as directed by TWC of the following Philippines terrorist organizations. The Statement of work is attached. The Government contemplates awarding a Firm-Fixed Price purchase order for the services. . All responses should reference PR 657/0024Z/00. Interested parties have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualification/ capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a full and open competition basis. Responses received without the requested information may be considered non-responsive to the synopsis/solicitation. Oral communications are not accepted. Responses should be submitted by mail to Virginia Contracting Activity, P.O. Box 46563, Washington, DC 20050 or via Facsimile at (202) 231-2878. Please indicate business size when submitting a response. Submit responses to the attention of Kevin Pryor, Contracting Specialist, VACA, DAP-2. To request a copy of clauses that are pertinent to this requirement send a fax to (202) 231-2878. Statement of Work, Philippines Open Source News Profiles dated, August 1, 2000 1. PURPOSE: To commission and exploit a news profile delivery service that will, via open electronic and non-electronic source documents, organizations, Tagalog linguists, and professional peer contacts, track terrorist activities and organizations in the Philippines to further the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Office of Counter terrorism Analysis' (TWC) global counter terrorism (CT) analysis and intelligence production mission. 2. BACKGROUND 2.1 TWC has the primary responsibility to produce CT intelligence for the Department of Defense (DoD) under the DoD Intelligence Production Program (DODIPP). TWC CT analysts execute this responsibility by exploiting both classified/restricted and open information sources. English and foreign language collateral and open-source reporting indicate dramatic increases in terrorist activities around the world. Since TWC analysts are not tasked/co-rated as linguists, foreign language information sources of potentially significant value are largely underutilized or untapped by in-house personnel resources. Therefore, outsourcing foreign language research and reporting to companies with the language skills, manpower, and requisite information accesses is the logical, cost-effective solution to TWC's research and reporting capability shortfall. 3. OBJECTIVE: To understand the activities, organization, motivational factors, critical capabilities, and patterns of Philippines terrorist groups. 4. (U) SCOPE OF WORK 4.1 Focusing on Tagalog language sources, provide daily updates on terrorist activities, use or acquisition of CBRN materials, arrests, official sponsorship, operating tactics, and public pronouncements as directed by TWC of the following Philippines terrorist organizations:  Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)  Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)  Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)  New People's Army (NPA)  Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)  Communist Party Philippines (CPP) 4.1.1 Produce and develop daily Tagalog news profile modules consisting of raw data and an English summary of module content. 4.1.1.1 Module profiles, consisting of terrorism-related articles, shall contain a source notation, publication date, full article text, images, and the originating URL and the individual HTML page in cases of worldwide web/internet data extraction. 4.1.1.2 All captured foreign language articles shall remain in the original language but will include an English summary and title abstract to allow analysts to make a preliminary assessment of relevance without translating the entire document. 4.1.1.3 At the discretion of the TWC Contracting Officer Representative (COR), the contractor shall augment Tagalog reporting with other non-Tagalog and/or non-electronic sources. 4.1.1.4 News profile delivery service level of effort shall be two hours per business day, excluding Federal holidays, for the life of the contract. 4.1.1.5 The contractor shall not duplicate information to be found in TWC's existing English language open information sources such as Reuters and FBIS. 4.1.2 In cooperation with the DIA Open Source Coordinator, generate and post daily a worldwide web site containing all acquired articles and accompanying images to the DIA OSIS server, thus providing TWC analysts with a simple means of viewing current and previously transmitted articles. The resulting web site shall be fully OSIS- and INTELINK-compliant, including appropriate intelligence function and country codes. 4.2 Scan, index, and publish to CD-ROMs produced with software interfaces normalized in Tagalog, searchable electronic versions of document archives. 5. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: One year from contract award/inception. 6. SECURITY REQUIREMENTS: The objectives and work described in this SOW are unclassified. 7. REQUIRED TRAVEL: Contractor team member(s) shall travel to the DIA Center (DIAC) and other sites as required/directed by TWC COR and/or Technical Advisor weekly in order to review progress and identify any issue areas. The contractor is responsible for travel costs administration. 8. DELIVERABLES AND DELIVERY SCHEDULE: The contractor will provide a daily feed of relevant terrorism-related article abstracts/English summaries translated from Tagalog. Each article/English summary provided will contain a source notation, publication date, full article text, images, the originating URL and the individual HTML page whenever possible. The daily work product will be updated and uploaded to the DIA OSIS server each business day during the term of this contract. 9. GOVERNMENT-FURNISHED PROPERTY/EQUIPMENT/DATA: None 10 INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE: Articles will be submitted to the COR who will inspect and accept them daily during the normal workweek at TWC in the DIAC. Acceptance of all deliverables shall be based on the determination of the COR that all work is performed in accordance with the tasks specified in this SOW and any future modifications/amendments hereto. Posted 08/23/00 (W-SN489287). (0236)

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