ACA Verification Service (AVS) / Premium Tax Credit (PTC) O&M Support

The purpose of this sole source acquisition is to obtain uninterrupted support services for the maintenance & enhancements (M&E) of AVS/PTC. The services will be required to assist existing IRS development resources in designing, development, configuration, integration, implementation and maintenance of the AVS/PTC. The software will be used to enable the IRS to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and to support the IRS in processing health insurance-related tax forms and schedules. The desired end state is to keep current the AVS/PTC processing system, which is responsible for integrating with the Current Processing Environment (CPE) to perform compliance checks and validate information on health insurance- related tax forms to support PPACA.

The incumbent has maintained the AVS/PTC systems for the past five years and developed the current AVS/PTC Filing Season (FS21) plan to implement critical FS21 changes that are also aligned with Modernized eFile (MeF).  The contractor services are critical in completing the remaining FS21 Agile sprints (s/w changes) as well as providing operational support while new vendor transitions and assumes full AVS/PTC responsibility. 

The follow-on award of AVS/PTC has been made; however, a post-award protest has been received by the awarding CO. Therefore, until the protest can be resolved, continue support is needed.

Awarded contract 47QTCK18D0004 to unknown vendor for unknown amount on 2020-09-22.