Booz Allen Hamilton won a spot on the Internal Revenue Service Enterprise Development, Operations Services contract, a blanket purchase agreement with a ceiling value of $2.6 billion.
The multiple-award BPA has a 7-year period of performance.
The EDOS contract supports IRS’ applications development portfolio to modernize mission critical applications while implementing annual tax season legislative requirements. It’s designed for task orders that will support the filing season and the agency’s legislatively mandated modernization goals.
“Meeting the demands of today’s digital citizen requires expertise in modernization, operations and maintenance with complex systems across the federal government,” said Paul Tartaglione, a senior vice president in Booz Allen’s civil business.
The contract represents “an exciting milestone in a period of transformation for the IRS,” said Richard Crowe, Booz Allen’s civil sector president.
“We look forward to the opportunity to apply our decades of experience in powering data-enabled missions as we enhance the way the IRS serves the public by modernizing legacy systems, building up and leveraging data and analytics and delivering cutting-edge technology to operate more effectively,” Crowe said.
With this contract, Booz Allen builds on its more than 25 years supporting the IRS. The company helps the tax agency maintain a portfolio of over 400 systems, balancing tax filing season deadlines against decommissioning, consolidation, and re-platforming to reduce the agency’s legacy IT footprint, while building new systems to support the ever-changing demands of all citizens.
“Our deep mission understanding ⏤ coupled with our proven track record of applying artificial intelligence, machine learning and cybersecurity to federal missions ⏤ enables us to play a pivotal role in enhancing the functionality and efficiency of IRS’ systems,” Tartaglione said.