IRS RFI: Identify Joint Ventures whose Primary Work is Agile Software Development

Notice ID:  07182024

This Notice targets 1) established Joint Ventures between two small businesses, AND (2) established Joint Ventures between two entities with an approved Small Business Administration (SBA) Mentor-Protege Program (MPP) relationship.

FUTURE STATE: The Department of Treasury, Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is evaluating the process by which the Department and its Bureaus procure vendor services to build and support digital products, in order to adjust to recent changes in software development best practices. Our goal is to shift the dominant method of software development and delivery within the Department from a waterfall model, with lengthy predetermined requirements, to an Agile model that uses research and human-centered design to rapidly deliver value to end users. In order to execute this shift, we must ensure the right vendor partners are selected.

OCIO is exploring methods to identify partners who can help execute the shift; there are no incumbents for this effort as it would result in a new award for new work. Specifically, the OCIO sees the following three functional areas that need support:

• Full-scope Agile software development, including user research, user story development, user experience (UX) and graphic design, software development, testing, DevOps/cloud engineering, release management, data architecture, user analytics, and scrum leadership/Agile coaching.
• User research and UX design as its own free-standing requirement. This requirement would be valuable when the Government needs support defining a problem and envisioning potential solutions, but is not ready to begin developing a product.
• Technical guidance and code reviews of ongoing work (to include feedback on the engineering work products by the Government and/or other vendors)

POTENTIAL CONTRACTUAL MODEL: Conceptually, any award to support this type of work would:

• support all described Agile Software Development functional areas
• allow for the issuance of multiple orders
• be a multiple-award and each order would be competed
• support execution of multiple orders at the same time
• support short term engagements (1 – 6 months)
• be for smaller dollar values ($250K – $20M)
• be a mix of Labor Hour (LH) and Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) (where possible) offerings

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