Special NoticePosted Sep 3, 2026·Responses due Sep 10, 2026

Reality Defender Platform

Immigration and Customs Enforcement · INVESTIGATIONS AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT DALLAS

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541519
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
192126VHQ4CCC0119
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
7A21
Place
VA, USA
Contact
IOSD SW (IOSDSWT@ice.dhs.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 192126VHQ4CCC0119 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 3, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (2 found; 10 needed).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

This notice is being provided per the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Part 5 (FAR Class Deviation 25-17). The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Office of Acquisition (OAQ) intends to solicit from a single source under the authority of RFO Part 6.103-1 (FAR Class Deviation 25-11) to Reality Defender in Hudson, New York for Reality Defender synthetic-media detection platform. Consistent with RFO 6.103-1(b), the Contracting Officer has determined that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one responsible source and no other type of su… (show all)

pplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Interested parties that believe they can meet the requirements may respond to this notice. The response should contain a brief description of any experience with this information and/or platform. The Government reserves the right to evaluate all responses received and may determine an interested vendor not capable of providing/performing the work required. This notice is for information purposes only and is not a Request for Quote (RFQ). A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on this notice is within the discretion of the Government Contracting Officer.

Who won similar work

7 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 541519.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
CELLEBRITE INC1$96.0MSep 22, 2026
TRM LABS, INC.1$94.7MJul 2, 2026
AT&T Enterprises, LLC · $T1$11.3MSep 9, 2025
THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES LLC1$3.6MSep 30, 2025
Centripetal Networks, LLC1$1.8MAug 6, 2026
SLAM TECHNICAL SERVICES LLC1$1.5MSep 19, 2025
FCN, INC.1$949KApr 15, 2026

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 7 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) job
  • $190K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Homeland Security, House Committee on the Judiciary, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 1 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.