The IRS is using its relatively new, quickturn procurement vehicle—Pilot IRS—to support a governmentwide data collection effort in support of fixing pain points in the government’s acquisition process.
This summer, the Office of Management and Budget rolled out a new cross-agency priority, or CAP, goal entitled “Frictionless Acquisition,” with the aim of delivering “commercial items at the same speed as the market place and manage customers’ delivery expectations for acquisitions of non-commercial items by breaking down barriers to entry using modern business practices and technologies,” according to the goal statement on Performance.gov.
Part of that goal includes improving information collected about federal procurements and the ways that data is standardized and combined to gain insights—also known as “data mashing.”
IRS procurement officials were tapped to figure out how best to accomplish this task with regard to prices for goods and services and issued a request for proposals this week using its experimental contracting vehicle.
“There is a significant amount of data provided by government entities in this arena, including—but not limited to—information generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the General Services Administration, and annual reports on the prices the federal government pays for services. Similarly, there is a significant amount of data generated by private entities in this arena,” the RFP states. “Maximizing the use of existing labor/wage data will result in better acquisition planning, improved contract negotiations, and lower taxpayer costs. Furthermore, a solution that combines multiple data sources (the example sources included above and additional so ..
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