SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Foreign Investment Real Property Tax Act
- Notice Date
- 8/17/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 561499
— All Other Business Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), National Office Procurement (OS:A:P), 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 500, Oxon Hill, Maryland, 20745
- ZIP Code
- 20745
- Solicitation Number
- tirno11q00012
- Archive Date
- 8/1/2012
- Point of Contact
- Frederick Faulkner, Phone: 202 283-1321
- E-Mail Address
-
frederick.a.faulkner@irs.gov
(frederick.a.faulkner@irs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Internal Revenue Service intends to award a Contract for Research with an extract of real-estate transaction records occurring in the U.S. during Calendar Year 2010 in which the selling party (grantor) uses a foreign address. Such records shall form the basis of Research's future, nonfiler analysis and tax-gap estimation. If it cannot be readily discerned from the property record that the selling party has a foreign address, the extract shall consist of records exhibiting an absence of a valid, two-character state/territory code in the seller's address. The selected Contractor shall generate an extract of real-property records meeting the prescribed methodology that were transacted in Hawaii during Calendar Year 2010. The Contractor shall directly identify records whose sellers have a foreign address. The selected Contractor shall generate an extract of real-properties meeting the prescribed filtering criteria that were transacted in other U.S. locations during Calendar Year 2010. Other locations include the 49 states (Hawaii excepted), the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Research acknowledges that some counties or territories may be missing from the Contractor's database as some counties have yet to convert their property records to electronic files. The Deliverables listed below shall be required in accordance with the schedule and in the quantities. Proof-of-Concept Properties as follows: Travel to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories and possessions 1) Documentation of the filters applied to the database. The Contractor shall supply Research with electronic copies of all coding instructions used to construct the extract. 2) Documentation of the record layouts and the field definitions. The Contractor shall supply Research with electronic copies of all record layouts and field definitions in the extracted property records. The Contractor shall also document which Hawaii counties are lacking from its database. Test of accurate replication. The Contractor shall report the total number of property records and the sum of the sales prices. These results shall be used to ensure accurate replication of the Contractor's extracts on Research's computer. Although not anticipated, all travel shall be in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulations (for travel in 48 contiguous states), the Joint Travel Regulations, Volume 2, DOD Civilian Personnel and if required by the Statement of Work, the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas), A Maximum Travel Per Diem Allowances for Foreign Areas (for travel not covered in the Federal Travel Regulations or Joint Travel Regulations). All responsible sources shall submit a written quotation no later than Nine (9) business days from the posting date of this announcement, no exceptions. Award will be based on lowest offeror technically acceptable. All responsible sources shall include price, timeframe for delivery, FOB point, point of contact to include name and telephone number. Award company must be actively registered in CCR at time of award. Quotations will be accepted via facsimile responses shall be no longer than ten (10) pages in length total. Any questions regarding this requirement MUST be submitted in writing; NO oral communications will be accepted or acknowledged. All questions must be submitted in writing and received via facsimile at 202-283-1534 ATTN: Frederick Faulkner. All responsible sources MUST be received by 4:00PM EST August 31, 2011.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/TREAS/IRS/NOPAP/tirno11q00012/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Internal Revenue Service, New Carrollton Federal Building, 5000 Ellin Road - C2-277, Lanham, Maryland, 20735, United States
- Zip Code: 20735
- Zip Code: 20735
- Record
- SN02539253-W 20110819/110818000655-7dac8381d707befbfb2db882bf7d2ca5 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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