Sources-Sought_02-12-2026.pdf

Sources Sought Synopsis

Description: Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) - Platform Architecture and Engineering

Implementation Services

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support

EDP which supports digitalization, enables self-service reporting, and access to legacy system data, establishing automated capture of metadata and data governance capabilities and improving data quality, data security and data lineage across the IRS. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541512 – Computer

Systems Design Services.

There is no solicitation at this time. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. This is not an evaluation of proposals but an assessment of vendors’ capabilities. Therefore, a high-level assessment of the capability statements will be performed. Generic brochures are not being requested. Vendors should provide information to stress their competencies, differentiators, and past performance showing or demonstrating:

− Core Competencies to demonstrate expertise.

− Differentiator’s listing/discussing unique factors and benefits of the services that set them apart from others.

− Past Performance listing/discussing previous similar work showing benefits and how the past projects relate to Agency’s needs.

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) organization name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

Based on the responses to this sources sought notice/market research, this requirement may be set-aside for small businesses or procured through full and open competition, and GSA

Schedules. Interested potential offerors must clearly specify the following: their Unique

Entity Identifier (UEI), business size applicable to NAICS, socioeconomic business category, GSA contract number (if applicable), and any other applicable GWAC number.

Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by

Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM EST. All responses under this Sources Sought

Notice must be emailed to Jared Alexis at jared.j.alexis@irs.gov and Ebenezer Owusu at ebenezer.k.owusu@irs.gov. Additional information on the required services is listed below.

If you have any questions concerning this opportunity, please contact the Contract Specialist, Jared Alexis at jared.j.alexis@irs.gov.

Background: EDP is a next-generation data integration, management, and access solution providing a secure transactional and analytical infrastructure. It enables the Internal Revenue

Service (IRS) to transform tax processing, improve compliance, support modernization goals, and provide a single source of trusted data to internal and external stakeholders.

EDP will improve taxpayer, employee, business, and technology objectives at the IRS by modernizing the way data is utilized by providing a single source for data for internal and external stakeholders. EDP will enable IRS to effectively leverage centralized secure storage and access to data to enable transformation and modernization efforts and meet legislative mandates. EDP will:

• Transform tax processing by providing near real-time access to data.

• Inform data-driven decision making by providing secure, trusted access to data.

• Improve compliance and fraud detection by providing analytical data and services.

• Support Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and modernization goals by providing foundational data services and data products

General Description of Work: IRS is seeking a Contractor to assist with Enterprise Data

Platform (EDP) - Platform Architecture and Engineering Implementation Services. The

Contractor shall perform all platform development, engineering, Operations and Maintenance

(O&M) tasks to support mission-critical IRS applications. Services include:

• Platform engineering, upgrades, and sustainment

• Cloud infrastructure management - Monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery

• Data integration and access management

• Cost optimization and performance tuning

• Compliance with Treasury and IRS Information Technology (IT) security policies

The objective of this requirement is to deliver integrated, secure, and scalable technology capabilities that advance the IRS’s modernization priorities and enable faster, more reliable, and more secure delivery of digital services.

Platform Development, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME)

• Design and maintain AWS account structures, organizational units, and landing zones that provide the backbone for multi-tenant operations.

• Build and operate shared services such as VPCs, Transit Gateways, PrivateLink, and DNS to enable secure connectivity across environments.

• Provision and manage compute and data services including EKS, Databricks, RDS, Redshift, and S3 at enterprise scale.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code modules to ensure consistent, repeatable provisioning of resources.

• Deliver observability frameworks for logging, monitoring, metrics, and tracing to give full visibility into platform health.

• Maintain and enforce secure baseline configurations for operating systems, containers, and middleware across all environments.

• Enable cross-environment integrations and routing so tenants and services can operate securely and reliably.

• Provide standardized APIs and SDKs to tenants so they can consume platform services efficiently.

• Architect and validate high-availability and disaster recovery patterns that protect workloads against outages.

• Continuously upgrade, tune, and evolve the platform to keep pace with performance, security, and feature needs.

The tasks require a set of skill categories based on the following approximate breakdown:

Key Personnel Role Key Personnel Minimum Experience and Skill Requirements

Program Manager PMP certified; 10+ years leading federal IT programs

Cloud Architect AWS Certified Solutions Architect; 8+ years in enterprise-scale cloud systems

DevOps Engineer Expertise in CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab)

Security Engineer CISSP or equivalent; experience in FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 compliance

Operations Lead 7+ years managing 24/7 enterprise environments

Contemplated performance metrics and report requirements:

Performance

Objective Performance Standard

Acceptable

Quality Level

(AQL)

Surveillance

Method

Platform

Availability

Maintain ≥99.5% uptime (excluding planned maintenance)

99.5% Automated monitoring

Incident

Response

Critical incidents resolved within 2 hours

95% Monthly performance report

Patch

Management

Apply security patches within 30 days

100% Quarterly audit

DR Testing Perform recovery validation quarterly

100% Test results review

Report

Submission

Deliver reports by due dates 95% COR review

Contemplated dollar value of the project:

It is anticipated that the dollar value will be between 30 and 40 million dollars for the base period plus two (2) 12-month option periods.

Contemplated place of performance:

Duties will be performed remotely or at various IRS facilities located in (though not exclusively):

Lanham, MD; Martinsburg, WV; Memphis, TN; Washington, D.C.; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.