Editor-In-Chief May 10, 2023 0 Comments

On the heels of successfully deploying Release 1 into production this past January in response to the Taxpayer First Act, the Internal Revenue Service IR Mod Program Management Office (PMO) is in the midst of evaluating its acquisition strategy for an upcoming requirement to support efforts to leverage the Release 1 platform to build a comprehensive, end-to-end modernized Information Returns pipeline to replace all legacy Information Returns intake channels over the next few years. Small and large businesses are known to be actively working to influence how any subsequent RFP out of the Department of Treasury will be released.

This IR Mod PMO support contract will be in direct support of this office, which operates as an integrator across Business and IT Delivery Partners and is part of the Enterprise PMO (EPMO) in the IRS IT organization. A primary focus of the effort will be on Program Management in support of the transition from a single-release focus to parallel delivery of multiple capabilities in accordance with the IR Mod Product Roadmap; Stakeholder Engagement and Organization Readiness Management to drive integration across internal and external partners to ensure alignment of program-wide activities; and Delivery Management to ensure systems engineering principles are applied rigorously and consistently across the program in a manner that improves timeliness and quality of end-to-end solution integration and testing.

eTelligent Group (eTel) is a known incumbent in support of the IR Mod PMO, having received a new $9M contract award late last year focused on “fully modernizing Information Returns processing for tax returns to improve data access and data integration. This will consolidate, standardize, and simplify the processing of documents while improving availability and resiliency.” That two-year IR Mod Release 2 task was competed and awarded using the Information Technology Enterprise Program Management Support Services (IT-EPMSS) IDIQ. Award details and spend to date can be found here.

Whether it will be released as a small business set aside action and what contract vehicles they use (Alliant2, STARS III, VETS 2, MAS, etc.) is still up in the air, but the IRS has been clear that they are seeking a partner who has experience driving similar complex program management efforts and supporting enterprise-wide, cross-organizational efforts within the IRS Information Technology organization. It is also seeking a company that has a thorough working knowledge of IRS IT program management processes such as requirements management and release management. This type of high-profile effort is certain to draw a lot of interest when and if it is competed.

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IRS Focused Small Businesses drawing the most attention:  

Included below we share nearly three dozen small businesses which stood out as the most viewed profiles on the OrangeSlices partner platform thus far in FY 2023, and that provide direct experience in support of the Department of the Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Please note that for the purposes of this report, we are defining small business as a company that self-identifies in SAM as a small business under $34M, calculated using a multi-year average revenue calculation.  

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We cannot and will not speculate here as to the reasons for the increased interest, but whether it is a company evaluating them as a potential partner; a federal acquisition leader doing their due diligence; or a consultant weighing their next job move, this group of companies has been receiving increased interest.  

If you are a small or large business with capabilities and socio-economic status that might support this effort, comment below to let others know you are interested.  

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