IRS RFI: Unified Data Analytics Platform (UDAP) Software, Maintenance, and Support

Notice ID: 2024-AMP-APMI-OITA-002

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Cybersecurity and the Treasury requires Unified Data Analytics Platform (UDAP) software, maintenance, and related support. IRS is mandated to use software tools to detect and analyze cyber events that may threaten the safety and security of government networks. To meet this legislation, IRS will use UDAP software to conduct “big data” analysis across the Department of Treasury. UDAP must be able to ingest data from a wide range of sources, including on premise servers, websites, external connections, portal services, and devices.

Description: The Government seeks information regarding Splunk Enterprise (Brand Name) or equal software, software maintenance, and related support services to perform “big data” analysis across the Department of Treasury. The solution must meet the following salient capabilities:

Architecture:

• Distributed architecture with microservices-based design
• Built using containerization and orchestration
• Scalable and flexible infrastructure to handle large volumes of data
• Provides software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to leverage software platform
• Log files generated by computer systems and IT infrastructure at Government locations, in the cloud, or hybrid environments.

Data ingestion:

• Centralized data repository with columnar database
• Data compression, encryption, and access controls for security and governance

Data Processing:

• Data processing engine for scalability and performance
• Integration with machine learning and AI frameworks
• Collect events from multiple sources into a single alerting framework
• Data foundation and search capability for existing IRS audit and compliance applications
• Advanced search processing language for large, diverse datasets and creating reports
• Allows users to quickly search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on machine data

Data Visualization:

• Interactive and dynamic visualization tools
• Real-time and historical data visualization capabilities
• Capable of generating reports quickly
• Generates incident tickets
• User interface (UI) for creating reports and custom dashboards

Analytics and Machine Learning:

• Integration with popular machine learning libraries
• Real-time and batch analytics capabilities
• Customizable dashboards for IRS Analytics (key performance indicators, operational metrics, and security alerts

Security and Governance:

• Role-based access control and authentication
• Data encryption and access controls
• Audit logs and version control for data and analytics workflows
• Out-of-the-box security detections
• Pre-Built Security Content Library
• Provide risk based alerting capabilities
• Synthesize external threat intelligence data feeds

APIs and Integration:

• RESTful APIs for data ingestion, processing, and visualization
• Pre-built connectors for data sources and applications
• Integrate with existing IT Service Management systems
• Integrate with existing IRS cybersecurity and IT Operations Management products and capabilities
• Support operations without any disruption to existing production systems and disruption to production operations

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