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This source sought notice is being issued by AFDW/PK, Joint Base Andrews, MD 20762 ahead of an anticipated procurement for Course Development and Delivery of Digital Forensics Expert Witness Testimony... This source sought notice is being issued by AFDW/PK, Joint Base Andrews, MD 20762 ahead of an anticipated procurement for Course Development and Delivery of Digital Forensics Expert Witness Testimony Training. The Contractor shall provide the services outlined in the attached Draft Performance Work Statement. The government seeks additional vendors for this training. If a company knows they are capable of meeting the needs in the PWS please provide a capabilities brief that includes how the following will be met for this requirement: (all 5 must be met to be considered capable) 1. Senior Forensic Examiners –CONTRACTOR MUST employ twenty- or more full-time forensic examiners who have extensive training and experience working in the field, including DOD agencies. They must have repeatedly testified as fact and expert witnesses in state and federal courts. They teach multiple classes about all stages of digital evidence acquisition, examination, and analysis. This includes strong working knowledge of Windows, Apple, Linux, Android, IoT, cell phones, and other operating systems. They develop, update, and deliver training for federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial personnel, while also training international law enforcement partners on selected topics. Contractor’s forensic examiners must provide instruction at beginner, intermediate, advanced, and highly advanced levels, targeted to present and emerging digital evidence issues. 2. Senior Legal Counsel: CONTRACTOR MUST employ highly experienced former federal and state prosecutors who specialized in the acquisition and use of digital evidence to further investigations, provide intelligence analysis, and prove legal issues to judges and jurors. This includes extensive experience with the specialized evidentiary, ethics, and discovery issues arising from complex criminal cases featuring digital evidence. 's lawyers regularly provide training and technical assistance in active criminal cases. They also design, develop, and deliver training about presenting and cross-examining digital evidence examiners and expert witness. Their training and experience include more than 100 federal and state trials, together with thousands of related searches, legal pleadings, and examination reports. They also regularly teach other prosecutors and investigators the legal requirement to properly authenticate and use digital evidence in legal proceeding. They are experts in trial strategy and practice. 3. Course Development Staff Capabilities: CONTRACTOR MUST employ extensive in-house staff to design, develop, and produce training materials, course guides, presentations, online learning modules, interactive immersive learning environments, and other deliverables for multiple U.S. government agencies, such as the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, INTERPOL, and multiple other federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and international agencies. This experience and training proficiency allows CONTRACTOR to provide an advanced training product to DC3 grounded upon carefully tailored learning objectives designed to meeting DC3's specific requirements. CONTRACTOR also has video production staff can provide the necessary support for a mock trial course. 4. Experience with Mock Trial Training: CONTRACTOR has special experience designing and delivering training for computer forensic examiners concerning how to prepare effective reports, explain their results using words, graphs, charts, and exhibits, provide effective testimony, professionally respond to cross-examination, and comply with all related ethical and discovery obligations. CONTRACTOR legal staff have designed and delivered mock training for investigators, prosecutors, and expert witnesses, including classes at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces. Additionally, CONTRACTOR provides regular technical assistance to investigators and prosecutors preparing for testimony, direct examination, and cross examination with a focus on digital forensic examiners. For this reason, the development of specialized training for DC3 will benefit from this experience without need to start from scratch. CONTRACTOR staff includes forensic examiners and attorneys having multiple national and international certifications through the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training. 5. Innovative Forensic Processes and Procedures: CONTRACTOR personnel have prepared and produced publications and innovative procedures in the field of digital evidence for more than 30 years. CONTRACTOR has experience in applied research and has developed proprietary digital forensic tools, such as PerpHound. A BPA is projected with a period of performance of 5 years, call orders will be issued off the BPA as trainings are needed. Point of contact: Stephanie.hunter.2@us.af.mil The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this acquisition is 611430 Professional development training. The PSC code is U099. The award is anticipated to be sole sourced to NW3C (National White Collar Crime Center) unless other sources found. The Government anticipates award of a single firm fixed price blanket purchase agreement. We anticipate award before 30 September 2022. Interested parties shall reply to this via email by the date listed and provide socio economic category (if applicable)/CAGE Code. Interested parties are solely responsible for monitoring the above website for the posting of the RFQ and any amendments. Vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database in order to be considered for award. See www.sam.gov for further information and instructions.