Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering Services

The U.S. Department of Labor, through its Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, is conducting market research under solicitation number OAA-26-00349 to identify qualified sources capable of delivering enterprise artificial intelligence engineering services in support of the Directorate of Technology, Innovation, and Engineering. This Request for Information, issued solely under FAR Part 10 for market research purposes, does not constitute a solicitation, request for proposal, or request for quote, and no award will be made from this notice. The anticipated contract would cover the full lifecycle of AI systems, including program initiation from a cold start, LLM integration and production deployment within FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments such as AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI Service, and GCP Vertex AI, along with advanced technical capabilities like RAG, GraphRAG, agentic AI orchestration, multimodal AI, MLOps, DevSecOps, adversarial testing, Responsible AI, HITL design, AI incident response, and SBOM generation. UI/UX design must adhere to Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 A/AA standards, and support services would include Tier 1 through Tier 3 AI application helpdesk functions, Agile project management using Jira and Confluence, and transition-in support capped at 45 calendar days. The required scope also includes technical research, proof-of-concept development, and the successful delivery of 39 specified deliverables across seven contract line item numbers. Interested organizations must submit responses by July 8, 2026, at 4:00 PM Eastern Time via email to Albracht.Kyle.K@dol.gov with the subject line “RFI Response - DOL OCIO AI Engineering Services - [Company Name].” Questions must be submitted by July 6, 2026, at 10:00 AM Eastern Time and will be answered anonymously and posted on SAM.gov. Responses must be organized in sections as outlined, with Section 1—Company Profile—exempt from the 25-page limit and required to include company name, address, UEI and CAGE codes, business size under NAICS 541512, socioeconomic status, GSA MAS and GWAC holder status, active federal security clearance levels, number of employees supporting federal AI/ML contracts, and primary point of contact details. All submissions must be in PDF or Microsoft Word format using Times New Roman