I spent a couple of years running product at a social monitoring company, and these kinds of RFPs are pro forma for industry and especially the government.
Basically, they're looking for a clipping service that includes sentiment analysis and influencer scoring so that they can know who to reach out to and when a negative (or positive!) article is published. They will then collate these reports and hand them up to their management to assess the current state of perceptions of the DHS on projects and initiatives.
The software companies that do this all have a combo of crawlers, RSS readers, and purchased feeds of articles. Those articles get fed through a homegrown or third-party text processing system that extracts the author info, date of publication, and the keywords and sentiment of the article. Then there's a basic visualization system that lets you build reports.
Everyone does this. Every brand, government agency, trade publication, everyone. It's pretty standard. Reading through the RFP I can even guess who's going to compete, though I think no one is going to offer what they're looking for in total.
All this to say, this is a non-event.