Sorry Small and Large Business Partners to IRS. You positioned well, but in what is certain to be a preview of the many extensions filed this Summer, the Internal Revenue Service has indicated that there is a delay incurred by IT/Enterprise Services (ES) in delivering the required acquisition package.
Why you ask? The delay in the IRS Procurement is not due to a lack of appropriate advanced planning, but rather due to the loss of several key federal IT acquisition SMEs (ISS CORs). This will be a story told time and again across nearly every agency as Federal leaders over the coming months adjust to changes in staff and as agencies deal with constrained timelines, resources and expertise.
IRS leaders further stated that the loss of “valuable irreplaceable skills and experience to retirement, voluntary reassignment, and other forms of attrition” in addition to “challenges in successfully backfilling these vacated staff positions” were Primary drivers in the delay.
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