Sales and Use Tax Audit Services

The City of Houston, Texas is seeking a qualified vendor to perform sales and use tax audit services for businesses operating within its city limits. The agency needs to identify and correct tax misallocations, track business refund filings, and analyze locality tax collection data to project future revenues. Through this initiative, the agency aims to ensure tax compliance and maximize local tax revenue recovery. The scope of work requires the selected vendor to review the city's sales and use tax ordinances to understand included provisions, coverage, and classification definitions. The vendor must establish a liaison with the city's coordinator, define logical progress checkpoints, and perform physical canvassing to verify which businesses have a tax nexus within the city limits. Additionally, the agency requires a tracking report that captures all instances of businesses filing refunds, amended returns, prepaid tax credits, state audits, or incorrect misallocations. Only onshore organizations based in the United States are eligible to bid on this opportunity. The agency allows the selected vendor to perform the contract work offsite. Bidders must submit their proposals digitally via email or through the designated online portal, and the agency is currently open to budget proposals from interested parties. The agency has scheduled a pre-proposal conference for June 29, 2026. Bidders must submit all clarifying questions regarding the solicitation no later than July 10, 2026. The agency will evaluate proposals based on the submitted qualifications and the proposed approach to the audit services.