Custom Application Development and Artificial Intelligence Services

The agency is seeking a vendor to provide custom application development, maintenance, and artificial intelligence services to support its systems and platforms. The project aims to modernize the agency's technological capabilities through cloud-native and microservices-based application architecture, modern development frameworks, and API-first, event-driven system interoperability. Additionally, the agency requires robust data integration, quality assurance with automated testing, and DevOps enablement including continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. To solve complex business problems, the agency needs to integrate intelligent services and generative artificial intelligence technologies into its business applications. The selected vendor will design, develop, and implement applications leveraging large language models, retrieval-augmented generation solutions, and customized enterprise Copilot solutions. These artificial intelligence capabilities will power specific use cases such as conversational agents, virtual assistants, document processing, semantic search, and decision support. The scope of work also includes the preparation, ingestion, and management of enterprise data sources, alongside the ongoing monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting of all deployed solutions. Bidders must be United States organizations, and the agency requires all contracted work to be performed offsite. The agency is looking for proposals to determine the budget, and the resulting contract will span a period of five years. Bidders must submit all questions by June 17, 2026, and the agency will accept digital proposal submissions via email or online.