TEGE Employee Plans AI Assistor RFI.pdf

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS)

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

TE/GE Employee Plans AI Assistor

June 30, 2026

BACKGROUND

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE), Employee Plans (EP) Division is responsible for compliance oversight of qualified retirement plans and related trusts. EP administers compliance programs through its determination letter, examination, and enforcement functions.

Employee Plans is conducting market research in support of a potential requirement for an Employee Plans Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistor capability. The objective is to identify commercially available and emerging solutions capable of enhancing EP’s ability to perform complex retirement plan compliance activities, improve operational efficiency, strengthen compliance risk identification, and support informed decision-making by IRS personnel.

The contemplated capability would assist EP personnel with the ingestion, organization, standardization, and analysis of large volumes of structured and unstructured data, including retirement plan documents, participant census data, workforce data, financial information, examination records, and related compliance documentation. The capability should support interpretation of plan provisions; evaluation of plan operations against applicable statutory and regulatory requirements; identification of potential compliance risks and operational failures;

execution of complex retirement plan calculations; and generation of reports, workpapers, and decision-support products.

The Government is particularly interested in solutions that can support scenario modeling, regulatory analysis, compliance risk assessment, retirement plan calculations, report generation, secure data ingestion, integration with existing IRS systems, accessibility requirements, and governance of AI-generated outputs.

PURPOSE

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is issued solely for market research, planning, and information-gathering purposes and shall not be construed as a commitment by the U.S. Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract.

This RFI does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service. The Government is not seeking proposals at this time and will not accept unsolicited proposals in response to this notice. Participants are advised that the Government will not pay any costs incurred in responding to this RFI. All costs associated with responding are solely the responsibility of the respondent.

This RFI is conducted as part of the Government’s market research and exchange of information with industry consistent with FAR Part 10, Market Research, and FAR 15.201, Exchanges with Industry Before Receipt of Proposals.

To assist in developing an Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) and acquisition strategy, respondents are encouraged to provide budgetary information, indicative pricing approaches, licensing models, subscription structures, implementation costs, labor category mappings, and other commercially relevant pricing information. This request is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a request for pricing proposals or quotations.

The Government may use responses to this RFI to evaluate marketplace capabilities, identify potential sources, assess commercial practices, evaluate acquisition strategies, determine appropriate contract vehicles, assess small business participation opportunities, and support future procurement planning activities. There is no funding set aside for this requirement at the time of this RFI.

SCOPE

At a high level, the Government is seeking information regarding solutions capable of supporting the following functional areas:

• Secure ingestion, normalization, and governance of structured and unstructured retirement plan data.

• Analysis of retirement plan documents for compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

• Performance of retirement plan calculations, testing, and compliance analyses.

• Compliance risk identification, prioritization, and recommendation of potential corrective actions.

• Generation of reports, workpapers, audit support documentation, and management information.

• Scenario modeling and “what-if” analysis for alternative plan provisions, operational corrections, and regulatory interpretations.

• Integration with enterprise platforms and case management systems, including PegaSystems and Salesforce.

• Compliance with Section 508 accessibility requirements and other applicable federal technology standards.

• Secure operation within environments containing sensitive federal tax information and other protected information.

• Auditability, transparency, explainability, and governance of AI-generated outputs.

The Government is also interested in understanding vendor approaches to security, privacy, model governance, data protection, access controls, audit logging, scalability, human review requirements, and ongoing maintenance and support.

RESPONDING TO THIS RFI

Responses shall not exceed sixteen (16) pages, excluding the cover page.

Cover Page (One Page Maximum)

The cover page shall include:

• Company name.

• Company address.

• Single point of contact.

• Telephone number and email address.

• Unique Entity Identifier (UEI).

• Business size and socioeconomic status.

• Applicable NAICS code(s).

• Relevant contract vehicles.

• Brief company overview and summary of relevant capabilities.

•List of any General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule contracts, Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), or other Federal contract vehicles relevant to this requirement

Technical Capability Information

In addition to the cover page, respondents should address the following:

1. Organizational experience delivering AI-enabled analytical, compliance, audit, risk assessment, or computation solutions.

2. Experience supporting large-scale ingestion, normalization, and analysis of structured and unstructured data.

3. Experience supporting regulatory interpretation, compliance assessments, or decision-support capabilities.

4. Proposed technical approach and architecture.

5. Estimated implementation schedule, including design, development, testing, deployment, training, and operational support.

6. Identification of whether the solution is commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), Government-off-the-shelf (GOTS), proprietary, or a hybrid approach.

7. Relevant past performance examples from the last three years.

8. Capabilities supporting:

• Retirement plan calculations.

• Discrimination testing.

• Distribution calculations.

• Allocation methodologies.

• Compensation definitions.

• Vesting schedules.

• Defined benefit funding analyses.

• Plan qualification reviews.

• Multi-year analysis and scenario modeling.

9. Reporting and analytics capabilities.

10. Compliance risk assessment and recommendation capabilities.

11. Integration capabilities with PegaSystems, Salesforce, and other enterprise systems.

12. Security, privacy, governance, accessibility, and data management capabilities.

13. Commercial practices, licensing approaches, maintenance support, and service-level options.

14. Rough-order-of-magnitude pricing information and recommended acquisition approaches.

The Government welcomes innovative approaches, emerging technologies, and commercial best practices that may improve Employee Plans’ ability to administer and enforce retirement plan compliance requirements.

Sources able to satisfy the requirements are invited to submit information describing their capabilities and relevant experience. Please limit submissions to a MAXIMUM of 16 pages (15 pages in addition to a single cover page, white paper response, diagrams, staffing concepts, and any attachments). Responses shall be provided in Microsoft Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), using 11 font size and 8.5 x 11-inch pages. No hard copies will be accepted.

Submissions shall be received at IRS via email to DAVIDA.E.PATTON@IRS.GOV and FRANCESCA.CONTEE@IRS.GOV , no later than 12:00pm eastern July 7, 2026. Early submissions are encouraged. IRS reserves the right to review late submissions; however, there is no guarantee of review of late submissions.

Please include the RFI title “RFI Response to TEGE AI Employee Assistor_ (Company Name)” in the subject line of your email and provide electronic submission (Microsoft Word or PDF) of your response.

Responses shall include the information requested below.

mailto:DAVIDA.E.PATTON@IRS.GOV mailto:FRANCESCA.CONTEE@IRS.GOV

QUESTIONS RELATIVE TO THE RFI

Questions in response to this Sources Sought Notice may be submitted electronically on or before July 2, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The Government reserves the right to respond to some, all or none of the questions submitted. Vendors that meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit their capability statements/RFI responses.

In addition to the cover page, the Government requests responses to the questions provided in the attachment “RFI Questions.” Prospective vendors shall limit responses to the RFI questions and any supplemental documentation (such as staffing concepts, process diagrams, or relevant past performance summaries) to a MAXIMUM of 15 pages plus cover page (16 total). Responses received by the Government exceeding the 15-page limit will not be reviewed beyond the first 15 pages after the cover page.

Any company proprietary information, performance capabilities, and/or future modifications should be clearly identified and marked; please segregate proprietary information. Please be advised that all submissions are confidential between the company and the Government, shall be deemed Government property, and will not be returned.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This RFI does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. All costs associated with responding to this RFI are solely at the responding party’s expense. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Further, the Government may contact the vendor for additional information regarding the information submitted as part of this market research effort. Any organization responding to this RFI should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization’s qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in the Governmentwide point of entry or other similar source (e.g., GSA eBuy). However, responses to this RFI will not be considered adequate responses to solicitation.

Responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract or agreement. The Government will not be obligated to pursue any particular acquisition alternative because of this RFI. Responses to the RFI will not be returned. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future solicitation if one is issued.

The Government reserves the right to contact some, all, or none of the responding vendors for further discussions regarding the RFI response. Any discussion is for clarification or for further information gathering and shall not be misconstrued as the Government’s interest to pursue or enter into any contractual agreement or obligation.