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This document is a Market Research Questionnaire for the "Multimodal AI Investigative Platform" service. Its purpose is to gather information from potential vendors to understand market capabilities and inform acquisition strategy. It does not obligate the Government to a contract. Responses are due by May 5, 2026, 2 PM PST, and should be sent to Parvinder.s.brar@irs.gov.

Company Information:

• Company legal name, POC, UEI#, Cage Code
• SAM registration status and exclusions
• NAICS code, Business Size, Socio-Economic Category
• GSA contract number (if applicable)

Past Experience: (Note: Not required for consideration)

• Details of past Federal government experience with the service, including product, contract #, agency, POC, phone, and email.

Service Information:

• Price per unit
• Desired line item structure (unit of measure for invoices)
• Pricing information for previous projects

Size Status Information:

• Primary purpose of acquisition: Multimodal AI Investigative Platform
• Details on which services will be performed by the prime contractor vs. subcontractors
• Percentage of work to be subcontracted
• Size status of intended subcontractors
• Compliance with Limitations on Subcontracting

Technical Questions:

• Evidentiary Traceability & Legal Defensibility: How the solution establishes and maintains linkage between data elements and source artifacts, including version control, provenance output, and air-gapped environment operation.
• Deployment Architecture & Government Operational Independence: Technical description of operation within Government-controlled, on-premises, and air-gapped environments without reliance on vendor-hosted services, including AI/ML/LLM deployment and Government configuration capabilities.
• Enterprise Throughput, Concurrency & Performance Validation: Demonstration of meeting enterprise-scale workload requirements, including performance metrics (users, ingestion, token processing), platform prevention mechanisms (contention, throttling), benchmark data, and scaling models.
• Salient Characteristics Compliance Matrix: A detailed matrix requiring vendors to indicate compliance (Y/P/N) for specific requirements related to Deployment & Infrastructure, Performance & Throughput, Data Ownership & Portability, Multimodal AI, Financial Forensics, Large File & Media, Traceability & Provenance, Governance & Explainability, and Licensing & Sustainability. Specific instructions are provided for marking compliance and detailing "Partial" responses.

This questionnaire is critical for potential bidders to understand the Government's specific technical requirements, performance expectations, and compliance needs for the Multimodal AI Investigative Platform. Completing it thoroughly will help the Government assess market capabilities and may influence the final solicitation details. Failure to respond fully may result in a company's response not being considered a viable source.

Statement of Work (SOW) / Performance Work Statement (PWS)

To procure an investigative data automation and analysis platform that supports the IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Division's mission. The platform must process large-scale financial records and multimedia evidence while maintaining deterministic evidentiary traceability, court-defensible analytics, and operational independence in on-premises and air-gapped environments.

• Operate fully on-premises and in disconnected environments, without reliance on contractor-hosted services.

• Convert unstructured financial documents and large multimedia evidence (>4GB) into structured, auditable datasets.

• Provide multilingual transcription and translation, preserving timestamps, metadata, and evidentiary integrity.

• Maintain deterministic, immutable linkage between data elements and their originating source artifacts.

• Enable one-click validation from analytic outputs back to original evidence without reprocessing.

• Support human-in-the-loop decision support, explainability, and overrides for investigative triage.

• Avoid proprietary ontologies, data lock-in, or contractor-dependent sustainment models.

• Meet or exceed all identified salient characteristics.

• Platform Availability & Access: 99.9% system availability; zero unplanned outages exceeding 1 hour; no loss of investigative data.

• Enterprise Licensing & User Access: 100% user access availability for ~3,000 users; 0 denied sessions during normal and surge operations.

• Data Access & Ownership: 100% data accessibility; no restrictions on export or retrieval.

• Multimodal Data Processing: ≥95% successful processing of submitted data types.

• Evidentiary Traceability & Provenance: 100% traceability of derived data elements to source artifacts; zero loss of lineage.

• Multilingual Processing: ≥95% transcription/translation accuracy; 100% metadata preservation.

• Financial Forensics Processing: ≥95% extraction accuracy for financial records.

• Human-in-the-Loop Validation: 100% of automated outputs support user validation, correction, and audit logging.

• Base Year: 06/01/2026 - 05/31/2027

• Option Year 1: 06/01/2027 - 05/31/2028

• Option Year 2: 06/01/2028 - 05/31/2029

• Option Year 3: 06/01/2029 - 05/31/2030

• Place of Performance: Contractor's Facilities

• Security: UNCLASSIFIED at the overall level of Tier 4. Personnel must be U.S. citizens and meet suitability and basic investigative requirements. Compliance with PIV requirements, IRM, TD P, and Federal regulations is mandatory. Negative 10-panel drug test required.

• Data Ownership: Government retains full ownership of all ingested data, derived datasets, analytic outputs, custom models, prompts, configurations, and structured ontologies.

• Government Furnished Property (GFP): Contractor Identification Badge, Laptop Computer with LAN Access, Microsoft Office Suite.

• Government Furnished Information (GFI): Manuals, directives, instructions, and other relevant printed/electronic media.

• Data Handling: Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) and For Official Use Only (FOUO) data must be protected. Adherence to Privacy Act of 1974 is required. Contractor personnel may be exposed to grand jury proceeding information, which is confidential and subject to strict disclosure rules.

• Personnel: Contractor is responsible for providing qualified personnel and replacing terminated or resigned employees within 30 days. Reporting of adverse information concerning employees is required.