IRS makes awards on $1.9B IT services recompete
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Ross Wilkers
This pact known as EPPIS supports the IRS office responsible for monitoring and managing its IT budget.
The Internal Revenue Service has made awards on a potential seven-year, $1.9 billion blanket purchase agreement for IT and program management support services.
Awardees will vie for task orders to work with the IRS' Enterprise Program Management Office, which is responsible for monitoring and managing how the tax collection agency spends its IT budget and delivers those capabilities to users.
Centennial Technologies, Deloitte, ETelligent Group, Integrated Systems and Noblis are listed as winners in Federal Procurement Data System records as of this story's publication. More awards could be in the works given the nature of BPAs, so we will update this article as the pool of winners grows.
The IRS made awards for the Enterprise Program Project Integration Services BPA on Monday and Tuesday. A total of 27 quotes were submitted, according to FPDS information.
EPPIS is the successor to the current iteration known as “IT-EMPSS,” or Information Technology Enterprise Program Management Support Services. The IRS chose nine companies for IT-EMPSS in 2019 at a $1.1 billion ceiling over five years.
Deloitte is the most notable incumbent that will continue onto the new iteration. The firm has taken in approximately 62% of the total $308.9 million that the IRS has obligated on IT-EMPSS, according to GovTribe data.
ETelligent and Integrated Systems are the other major incumbents that will keep the work, having respectively received 22.4% and 5.4% of the total obligations to-date. Centennial Technologies and Noblis are newcomers to the effort.
Solicitation documents on EPPIS outline its 20 task areas that encompass program technical and management approaches, organizational resources and management controls for a variety of program, project and integration tasks.
EPPIS' scope also ties into the IRS' overall modernization agenda that now has approximately $80 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds to support it.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to add ETelligent Group as an awardee)