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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 20, 2006 FBO #1697
SOURCES SOUGHT

R -- Behavioral Modeling of Abusive Tax Schemes

Notice Date

7/18/2006
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

541720 — Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
 

Contracting Office

Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), National Office Procurement (OS:A:P), 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 500, Oxon Hill, MD, 20745
 

ZIP Code

20745
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-M-6-M0-22-RO-A08
 

Response Due

8/1/2006
 

Archive Date

8/16/2006
 

Description

The Government intents to award a Sole Source Contract to Carnegie Mellon University to aid the Office of Program Evaluation and Risk Analysis (OPERA) with a project entitled "Behavioral Modeling of Abusive Tax Scheme Participants." This contract is seeking to expand the applicability of emerging simulation and analysis techniques for countering abusive tax schemes by building upon the agent-based simulation conducted in a recently completed phase of this project. The new phase will conduct follow on research into experimentation and analysis to increase understanding of individual taxpayer behaviors and potential responses to IRS interventions. It will also extend the stimulation within the model cities, expand efforts? to increase scalability of the model and continue validation and verification activities. In addition, we plan to begin outreach efforts to the IRS Business Unit?s leadership to increase the amount of subject matter expertise involved in developing this stimulation and analysis capability. There is a pressing need for improved decisions and policy analysis tools to reason about the impact different classes of interventions might have on the spread of various tax evasion or fraud schemes. Such tools have the potential to reduce the cost of the deployment of such interventions, increase their effectiveness, and provide better support to the tax-payer and the IRS. Prior research by OPERA into agent based stimulation has developed a foundation of understanding about the high potential of this emerging technology, and has identified a set of open research questions that remain to be answered.
 

Place of Performance

Address: Washington, D.C. - Metropolitan area

Zip Code: 20224

Country: UNITED STATES
 

Record

SN01091988-W 20060720/060718221350 (fbodaily.com)
 

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