Personnel Security Vetting and Adjudication Manage

The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center is soliciting responses for the Personnel Security Vetting and Adjudication Management System (PSVAMS), a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) cloud-based solution designed to modernize and unify the Department's personnel vetting, adjudication, and continuous evaluation operations across all bureaus. This Request for Information (RFI) is issued for market research purposes and will not result in a contract award, but rather will inform a subsequent Request for Proposal (RFP) anticipated to utilize a single-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract structure with firm-fixed-price task orders. Key requirements include a FedRAMP High-authorized platform capable of supporting approximately 90,000 federal employees, contractors, interns, and volunteers with capacity for seasonal surges of 16,000 additional personnel, seamless integration with external systems including DCSA eDelivery, GSA USAccess, and OPM eOPF, and full implementation completion within nine months of contract award. The solution must comply with FedRAMP High baseline controls, FISMA requirements, Privacy Act provisions, Section 508 accessibility standards, and federal mandates including Executive Orders 13467, 13764, and 14028, with core functional capabilities including automated vetting intake, tier-based adjudication workflows, continuous vetting alert management with RapBack support, and 24/7 helpdesk support with 99.9% system availability. Responses are due by February 25, 2026, at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time and must be submitted to Contracting Officer Jonathan Chisholm and Contracting Specialist Dorothy Royster at the Interior Business Center in Herndon, Virginia.

This solicitation is designated as an unrestricted acquisition with no small business set-aside, though the anticipated NAICS code is 513210 (Software Publishers) with a size standard of $47 million. No incumbent contractor or current contract values are identified in the available solicitation documents. The PSVAMS system must support comprehensive personnel security operations across the Department's bureaus, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, with deliverables including a Project Management Plan and Quality Control Plan due within 30 days of award, an Implementation Plan due within 60 days, training materials with Train-the-Trainer components, security and privacy documentation, Interface Control Documents, data migration validation reports, and a Phase-Out Transition Plan. The contractor must also provide one year of post-deployment support services and conduct monthly performance reviews with the Government. Performance of work will be conducted at a location to be determined, with the Government reserving the right to request virtual capability demonstrations from select vendors after the RFI closes.