PollStar Online Subscription

The Internal Revenue Service is soliciting a commercial subscription database solution to support its Central Withholding Agreement Program, specifically to conduct compliance analysis on nonresident alien artists and athletes performing in the United States. The required solution must be functionally equivalent to Pollstar Ultimate, providing comprehensive entertainment industry data including historical and current touring schedules, box office reporting, industry directories, news updates, and advanced search and filtering capabilities. The service must be web-based, accessible to non-technical users, and ensure 99% uptime excluding scheduled maintenance, with data exports available in Excel, Word, and PDF formats. Full compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards is mandatory, and the contractor must provide customer support with a one-business-day response time and two-business-day resolution target. The solicitation is issued as a combined synopsis/solicitation under FAR Subpart 12.6 and Part 13, utilizing a Firm-Fixed-Price contract structure with a twelve-month base period and four additional twelve-month option periods extending through September 2031, subject to government exercise. Evaluation is strictly pass/fail based on whether the proposed solution meets all identified salient operational characteristics; no scoring or weighting is applied, and award will follow a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable approach. The contract is assigned NAICS code 519290 with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees. Offerors must be actively registered in SAM and possess a valid UEI and CAGE code, and must self-certify their size status. The solicitation incorporates numerous FAR clauses, including options to extend the contract term, Service Contract Labor Standards, Combating Trafficking in Persons, and the recently introduced Addressing DEI Discrimination clause. A mandatory Certification Regarding Tax Matters requires offerors to attest to filing all federal tax returns and absence of IRS criminal convictions, with additional disclosures triggered for noncompliance with sanctions, federal acquisition security standards, or the use of covered telecommunications equipment. All personnel accessing sensitive taxpayer data must complete IRS Security Awareness Training within five business days of commencement and annually thereafter. Invoicing must be conducted electronically through the Invoice Processing Platform; paper submissions require prior waiver. Proposals must be submitted via SAM by August 3, 2026, and must include sufficient technical documentation, such as product literature, demos, or screenshots, to prove equivalency to Pollstar Ultimate. Contract performance occurs remotely via a subscription platform with no physical delivery or government-furnished property, and all subcontractors must adhere to the