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Sources Sought – THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) IS RELEASED PURSUANT TO FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) PART 10, MARKET RESEARCH. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Information Tech... Sources Sought – THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) IS RELEASED PURSUANT TO FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) PART 10, MARKET RESEARCH. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Information Technology (IT) is evaluating the requirements, processes, and costs to establish an automated security and field testing (ASFT) tool/process of its COTS (commercial off the shelf) and GOTS (government off the shelf) software. The IRS intends to use the ASFT to supplement its current manual security and field testing. The expectation is to incorporate ASFT to speed up testing, identify issues promptly and reduce deployment problems prior to installation. Please refer to the attached RFI for a overview and detailed description of the requirement. This RFI/Sources Sought is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as either a solicitation or the obligation on the part of Government. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts or quotations. This notice is for market research purposes only. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. Respondents will NOT be notified of the results of the analysis. All data received in response to this Sources Sought synopsis that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary information will be fully protected from release outside the Government. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly identified. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with all applicable Government regulations. All documentation shall become the property of the Government and will not be returned. The deadline for responses to this RFI is 6:00PM EDT, June 18, 2021. Responses should be forwarded via email to both the primary, Damond.D.McCann@irs.gov and "cc" to Merle.H.Webster@irs.gov . Responses shall not exceed 10 pages and shall not contain any brochures, advertising or any other type of extraneous, graphic literature or documents that have not been requested and are not relevant or essential in demonstrating the company’s ability to provide the required services. Vendors may provide links to relevant websites, as appropriate. Vendors shall reference “PREDEPLOYMENT AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TESTING” in the subject line of their response as well as in the subject line of any other e-mail correspondence referencing this notice.