Department of the Treasury (DY), Internal Revenue Service, (M:P:R:WR), 1650 Mission St., Rm 310, San Francisco, CA 94103 Attn: Holly L. Moy

D -- SOURCES SOUGHT- AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF ORDERS FOR IRS FORMS, IRS SCHEDULES, ETC; SUBSEQUENT TRANSMISSION OF VALIDATED ORDERS TO IRS DATABASE AND RELATED SERVICES. POC Holly L. Moy, Contracting Officer, (415) 575-7429. Sources sought for potential indefinite-delivery requirements contract for receiving and processing orders, and related services, from three IRS Distribution Centers: 1) Western Area Distribution Center (WADC), located in Rancho Cordova, CA, 2) Central Area Distribution Center (CADC), located in Bloomington, IL; and 3) Eastern Area Distribution Center (EADC), located in Richmond, VA. The contractor will provide all necessary management, supervision, personnel, services, transportation, supplies, equipment and production facilities. The contractor will be responsible for the design of six different IRS order form types to accommodate automated processing if necessary, subject to the Government's prior, and final,consent and approval of each design. Some of the minimum common fields on each existing form are as follows: name of individual or entity line, attention line, destination address line, destination city/state/zip code line, entity identification items, and items being ordered: forms, instructions, schedules, publications, kits, check-off blocks and write-in information blocks/lines. Among the six different order forms, some are color-coded; some of the colors cannot be photocopied; some can be photocopied. Adequate transportation arrangements are necessary for each workday's receipt of orders from WADC, CADC amd EADC, Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. After receipt of each workday's orders, within the next 24 hours, the data provided in each order shall be transferred into a computer database, by use of a document imaging system or other method, and then each order shall be validated and uploaded via 3270 emulation to an IRS mainframe situated in Detroit, Michigan. Each workday's upload shall be comprised of ASCII files, delimited to separate fields and records from validated orders, and depending upon the type of order form. Estimated, but not guaranteed, aggregate annual volume is approximately from three to four million orders (most information completed on the orders is manuallyprinted or is handwritten), requested on six different order forms. Estimated, but not guaranteed, volume for each of the three IRS distribution centers is approximately one-third each. There are approximately 8,000 items which may be ordered, consisting of items which are listed on each of the six order forms, and then write-in items which may include items not listed: forms, schedules, instructions, publications, documents, kits, letters and packages. In addition to orders IRS receives from taxpayers, while IRS is providing assistance to taxpayers, IRS also, separately, receives orders in the mail from taxpayers, tax practitioners, tax assistance volunteers, employers, other government agencies, banks, post offices and libraries. Peak-time ordering volumes, during January to April of each annual period, may account for approximately 60% to 70% of estimated, but not guaranteed, volumes. We expect any future contract will be for one base annual period and four one-year options. Interested sources should submit the following information, in writing, to the IRS Contracting Officer at the address identified herein, no later than 30 days after the publication date of this CBD synopsis (the deadline date): 1) technical capabilities and qualifications, including past performance indicating similar experience, and, at least addressing proposed work and automated processes, management, supervision, personnel, transportation, supplies, services, equipment, production facilities; 2) annual average gross receipts for the preceding three years; 3) pricing information addressing: an initial annual base period, a second annual period option, a third annual period option, a fourth annual period option and a fifth annual period option, and also the aggregate price for all five annual periods combined; and 4) questions. Questions, to be submitted in writing and to be received by the deadline date, may be considered at the discretion of the Government. Please note that this is not a formal solicitation and offer request and thereis no guarantee that any subsequent acquisition action will result from this sources sought synopsis. (0148)

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