Taxpayer First Act (TFA) Fingerprinting

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a component of the Department of the Treasury, is soliciting a no-cost contract for Channeler services to process authorized national noncriminal justice fingerprint submissions under the Taxpayer First Act (TFA) program. The selected contractor must be an FBI-approved Channeler capable of serving as a conduit for submitting fingerprints to the FBI and receiving Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) on behalf of an Authorized Recipient for noncriminal justice purposes. Key requirements include nationwide accessibility, a substantial federal customer base, Application Programming Interface (API) connectivity, and the ability to manage the entire electronic fingerprinting process from capture through analysis and data storage. The vendor will be responsible for transmitting fingerprint data to the FBI, delivering background check results and Record of Arrest & Prosecutions (RAP) sheet data to the IRS, and maintaining continuously updated information in a secure, vendor-managed database. The solicitation was posted on September 25, 2025, with a proposal due date of November 4, 2025.

This is a no-cost contract opportunity with no set-aside designation applied. No incumbent contractor or budget range is specified in the solicitation notice. The contract aims to replace the IRS's current fingerprint capture and analysis process with an electronic solution designed to decrease the duration that background check cases remain open. The place of performance is Mt. Laurel Township, New Jersey. The procurement falls under NAICS code 561611 (Investigation and Personal Background Check Services) and PSC category DH01 (IT and Telecom - Platform Support Services: Database, Mainframe, Middleware - Labor).