PICalcFor1040 RFI.docx

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Penalty and Interest Calculator for 1040 Exam (PCICalcFor1040) Request for Information (RFI) June 7, 2024

RFI for IRS Cloud Service Provider Continuous Monitoring Automation | ii Introduction SOURCES SOUGHT– THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) IS RELEASED PURSUANT TO FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) PART 10, MARKET RESEARCH.

This RFI is only issued for information and planning purposes. It shall not be construed as either a solicitation of the obligation on the part of the Government. All information received from this RFI will be used for Market Research purposes only. The Department of Treasury solicits vendor responses to this RFI for market research purposes only. This RFI will not result in a contract award.

The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses to this RFI nor otherwise reimburse vendors for the preparation of any information submitted or Government use of such information. There is no guarantee of a solicitation resulting from this RFI.

Acknowledgment of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified regarding the outcome of the information received. All data received in response to this Sources Sought synopsis marked or designated as corporate or proprietary information will be fully protected from release outside the Government.

The Government shall not be liable for or suffer consequential damages for proprietary information not properly identified. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with all applicable Government regulations. All documentation shall become the property of the Government and will not be returned.

Request for Information Number: PICalcFor1040 Project Title / Short Description: Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Penalty and Interest Calculator for 1040 Exam (PCICalcFor1040) PSC or FSC Code: 7A21 NAICS Codes: 541511 Release Date: 6/7/2024 Response Date: 6/17/2024 10:00 am EDT Primary Point of Contact and Contact Information:

Name: Sandra R. Anderson Title: Business Operations Specialist Email: sandra.r.anderson@irs.gov Phone number: 240-613-7462

COTS Penalty and Interest Calculator for 1040 Exam The IRS has a deadline of December 31, 2024, for the implementation and release of the modernized 1040 Exam workflow to IRS examiners on its Enterprise Case Management (ECM) system. As part of this effort, the IRS seeks to procure a Penalty and Interest Calculator which will be integrated into the IRS’ ECM 1040 Exam Workflow.

Description of Services The IRS is seeking to acquire and integrate a proven, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Penalty and Interest Calculation software (“PICalc”) which can be installed and operate in the IRS Net Hub Cloud environment. The IRS NetHub, deployed in AWS GovCloud (US-West), is a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) “High” authorized cloud platform and classified as a Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) “Moderate” security categorization. It includes the full scope of the Enterprise-level core services to support IRS Cloud workloads. The IRS NetHub requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the operating system for all workloads. The IRS seeks a vendor that can provide this COTS software and develop the required application programming interfaces (API) for the IRS to integrate the PICalc solution software with the IRS’ ECM 1040 Exam Workflow. The resulting solution will allow the determination of penalty and interest calculations to support the ECM 1040 Exam Workflow.

Vendor Inquiries and Questions Please email questions to both primary and secondary points of contact listed below with the following in the Subject Line: “Questions to RFI – PCICalcFor1040”. Responses to questions will be available to all vendors through Sam.gov and GSA e-buy for this RFI. The Government reserves the right to respond to some, all, or none of the questions submitted. Respondents may use the “Part III Question and Comments” tab located in the attached PICalcFor1040_RFIResponmseTemplate.xlsx to capture and submit questions and/or comments.

RFI Response Submittal Instructions Vendors are encouraged to be as specific as possible in addressing each section of the RFI. Feedback of a general or non-specific nature is less useful and may not be used in refining the acquisition strategy and impacting the content of a possible RFP/RFQ.

Vendors that meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit their capability statements/RFI response. Vendors shall reference “Response to RFI – PICalcFor1040” in the subject line of their response, as well as in the subject line of any other e-mail correspondence referencing this notice.

Respondents shall fill and include the file PICalcFor1040_RFIResponmseTemplate.xlsx as an attachment to their response.

Respondents are strongly urged to adhere to this page limitation as defined in the designated sections as well as to limit marketing material to provide more substantive information in their response. Vendors may provide links to relevant websites, as appropriate.

Parties shall respond to this RFI in accordance with the instructions provided in the table below:

Primary Point of Contact Sandra R. Anderson e-mail: sandra.r.anderson@irs.gov Secondary Point of Contact Jay R. Edillo e-mail: Jay.R.Edillo@irs.gov

Proprietary Information See FAR Subsection 3.104-4 for how this information will be safeguarded if properly labeled. The Government reserves the right to publish any information provided by a respondent to the RFI if publishing such information is done without attribution (i.e., does not identify the party submitting the response materials), and would not reveal company trade secrets or other similar protected or proprietary information. For example, if a respondent were to ask when the RFP would be released, then such a question could be published without attribution and would not jeopardize any corporate or trade secrets of the respondent. Accordingly, the Government may publish such materials. On the other hand, if a respondent were to provide detailed product rollout plans for a new payroll system offering, then that material would not be published if properly marked.

The Government will not respond to phone calls regarding this RFI.

Thank you for your interest.

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