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August 12, 2020 By cs

IRS floats experimental contract vehicle to help Administration meet procurement CAP goals

The IRS wants to mash up acquisition data to find insights into federal buying patterns and is using its experimental Pilot IRS procurement vehicle to test out new ideas.

The tax collection agency is working with the Office of Management and Budget on the Frictionless Acquisition Cross-Agency Priority, or CAP, goal, which “calls upon the government to modernize the collection, analysis, availability, and visualization of acquisition data for smarter and faster mission decision-making.”

To supplement this work, IRS officials are looking at current and innovative ways to combine distinct databases and sources on labor and wage rates into coherent, easy-to-use datasets with visualization and other analytical tools.

As part of this effort, the agency tapped its relatively new Pilot IRS program, which uses procurement methods in the Federal Acquisition Regulation to develop a phased funding contract vehicle that supports research and development. The program launched in early 2019 with a $7 million funding ceiling. But after some early successes — and well-managed failures — the program is growing in scope, both monetarily and programmatically.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2020/08/irs-floats-experimental-contract-vehicle-help-administration-meet-procurement-cap-goals/167442/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, contract vehicle, data-driven procurement, FAR, frictionless acquisition, IRS, OMB, Pilot IRS, procurement reform

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