6 SF1009-SoleSourceJustification-SBG_Redacted.pdf

Treasury Standard Form – 1009 (Rev 10/18)

Prescribed by Treasury: DTAP 1013.106(b) criminal investigation two-way radio systems installed in the government leased vehicles.

This IRS-CI repeater site is registered with the NTIA that allows CI to legally transmit RF. A new repeater site would require additional costs and administrative time to file the new site with the NTIA.

CI repeater equipment has been installed and in use at this site for many years. A change in the site will require equipment to be removed from its current location and installed elsewhere at additional costs with no guaranty of adequate coverage.

5. Any other important information.

The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division’s nationwide two-way digital VHF radio system exists to support field operations in conducting investigations and enforcement operations on a day-to-day basis in support of CI’s mission. The system provides optimum RF coverage in areas of the country where investigations are conducted. This enables CI agents to communicate directly with each other, as well as other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in a secure environment. It also serves to provide IRS-CI special agents with officer safety in the event of an emergency. The backbone of the system consists of a network of stand-alone repeaters that serve to broadcast CI radio transmissions over a wide area.

The establishment or relocation of an IRS-CI repeater triggers several additional reengineering costs and administrative burden to the government.

Once it has been established where RF coverage is needed to support a field office and its operations, a site survey is conducted to locate existing repeater sites including towers and/or buildings. The site survey serves to determine the optimum location for a repeater site that will provide the best coverage in a particular area. The survey is required for each potential repeater location and each site survey costs approximately .

Once a particular site has been surveyed and deemed acceptable for CI usage a Frequency Analysis must be conducted. It must be determined that the potential repeater site will accept IRS-CI frequencies without interfering with the site’s existing customers’ frequencies.

Frequency analysis interference studies take 3-4 months to complete and cost the government approximately each.

Finally, there is an additional cost incurred to physically remove the repeater from the existing site and installing it into the new site. The cost to remove and install a repeater, including new antenna line and antenna is approximately .

The existing site locations of IRS-CI’s repeaters currently meet the above engineering requirements. Additionally, CI’s footprint with each repeater site is now established so that new customers on a particular site cannot interfere with our frequencies. Each current IRS-CI repeater site is registered with the NTIA that allows CI to legally transmit RF. A new repeater site would require additional costs and administrative time to file the new site with the NTIA.

Based on the above, it would be both cost prohibitive and a waste of government resources to conduct market surveys on existing IRS-CI repeater sites.