Sources-Sought_Legislative Implementation.pdf

Sources Sought Synopsis

Description: Legislative Implementation and Analysis Support

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 this requirement for providing support for Legislative and Implementation Analysis Support.

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

Wednesday, September 10, 2022 at 2:00 PM EST. All responses under this Sources Sought

Notice must be emailed to John Sims at john.r.sims@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 Contracting Officer, Ebenezer Owusu at ebenezer.k.owusu@irs.gov.

Background: The IRS has successfully responded to fast-moving legislation. As the pace, complexity, and frequency of legislative changes continue to increase, there is an opportunity to establish a dedicated function to proactively plan for and respond to new legislation, Executive Orders, and other public policy mandates while ensuring alignment with IRS information Technology (IT) strategic priorities. The contract will support both newly enacted and proposed legislation and directives including the Public Law (P.L.)119-21 House

Resolution (H.R.) 1, “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OB3). Given the volume of recent and anticipated Legislation, Executive Orders, and other Public Policy mandates, there is a heightened need to improve our ability to respond proactively and strategically while centralizing Information Technology’s ability organize large-scale programmatic responses and implementations in a repeatable way that enables IT to achieve both near-term and long-term goals

General Description of Work: IRS is seeking a Contractor support for Legislative and

Implementation Analysis Support. This work enables the IRS to proactively anticipate and respond to evolving legislative priorities, particularly those that impact Filing Season 2026 and beyond (FS26+) operations. Necessary tasks identified for this requirement are as follows:

- The Contractor will support Scanning, Analysis, and Planning activities to proactively identify potential IRS IT impacts prior to the enactment of legislation.

- The Contractor will support the facilitation and execution of the Rapid Requirements

Elicitation (RRE) Operating Model to drive the identification and capture of requirements impacting Filing Season 2026 and beyond (FS26+), as driven by enacted legislation.

- The Contractor will assist with the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) and other pending legislation.

The characteristics below could help determine capabilities to perform Legislative

Implementation and Analysis Support requirements:

- The Contractor must possess tax and IT consulting experience, familiarity with IRS’ FS systems, as well as demonstrated experience managing major and complex legislative mailto:john.r.sims@irs.gov mailto:ebenezer.k.owusu@irs.gov mailto:ebenezer.k.owusu@irs.gov implementation efforts.

- The Contractor shall possess tax, technical and demonstrated experience managing significant legislative efforts with modernization impacts and where applicable, showing audit compliance without major deficiencies.

- Demonstrated ability to maintain compliance with all current and future Federal IT security requirements.

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

1. Legislative Analysis Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience in tax and IT consulting, focused on legislative mandates.

• Proven delivery of IT system impact analyses resulting from major legislation.

• Prior work coordinating across IT delivery teams and business owners.

• Demonstrated ability to act as integrator for legislative delivery efforts.

2. Enterprise Program & Project Management

• At least 5 years of experience supporting enterprise-wide programs visible at the

CIO level.

• Ability to generate decision-support materials and coordinate cross-agency execution.

3. Systems Engineering and Architecture Solutions

• Proven experience implementing shared technical and architectural visions at the enterprise level.

• Demonstrated capability managing large-scale modernization efforts tied to legislative changes.

4. The IRS is required to implement eighty-six (86) tax law provisions from OB3. Thirty

(30) of these provisions must take effect for tax year 2025 for Filing Season 2026

(January–April 2026). Of the Thirty (30), fourteen (14) are high impact/high complexity.

The 30 provisions must be implemented by December 2025 to allow for quality control, testing, and validation before the start of the filing season. The contractor must ensure adequate resources and support are in place to meet this development stop date and facilitate successful deployment of these provisions into IRS tax processing systems.

Contemplated performance metrics:

- 100% compliance with all security requirements.

- 100% compliance with all reporting requirements.

Contemplated report requirements:

- OB3 FS26+ RRE Plan

- High Level View (HLV) FS26+ Report

- High-Level Requirements (HLR) Tracker

- FS26+ and Mid-Year Dashboards/Quad Charts

- Weekly Scanning Summaries

- Monthly Status Reports

Contemplated dollar value of the project:

It is anticipated that the dollar value will be between 15 and 19 million for the base year plus 3

12-month option periods.

Contemplated place of performance:

Performance will be at the Contractor’s facility.