SQuA Upgrade and Maintenance

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to award a purchase order to Arkdata AB, Inc., Katonah, New York 10536, on a sole source basis under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This purchase order will provide information technology services for standard software maintenance of the Software Quality Assurance (SQuA) Unisys source code control utility and the upgrade to Release 5.0. The IRS utilizes the SQuA configuration management utility to manage and enforce tracking and software version control throughout the entire development life cycle of UNISYS tax administration applications. SQuA is an integrated version control (configuration management) tool for both source and executable Unisys application code. The utility has been significantly customized since its initial deployment to meet the complex requirements of, and function effectively in, the IRS unique and continuously evolving Unisys mainframe environment. This period of performance of this order shall be for a 12 month base period with four 12 month option periods.



Vendors who believe they can provide the required products and services should provide written responses that contain clear and convincing data substantiating their ability to furnish the entire requirement. Vendors should submit their responses by e-mail to Leona.m.brown@irs.gov no later than 10:00 am, Friday, September 9, 2011 (Eastern Standard Time). This is not a request for proposals and no solicitation document is available. Requests for same will be considered non-responsive. The reference number for this announcement is IRS-SQUA-2011. If no compelling responses are received, award will be made to Arkdata AB, Inc.