Enterprise Inbound Email Retention and Forensic Analysis Solution

Enterprise Inbound Email Retention and Forensic Analysis Solution Sources Sought Notice / Request for Information (RFI) This is a Sources Sought Notice (SSN) for market research purposes only. This notice is issued solely for information and acquisition planning purposes and does not constitute a Request for Quotation (RFQ), Request for Proposal (RFP), or a commitment to issue a solicitation in the future. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does not obligate itself to contract for any supply or service as a result of this notice. The Government is not currently seeking quotations or proposals and will not accept unsolicited quotations. The purpose of this notice is to identify potential vendors and commercially available solutions capable of meeting the IRS's enterprise email retention, search, and forensic analysis requirements. 1. BACKGROUND The Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is seeking information on existing Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) solutions capable of providing enterprise-wide inbound email visibility, retention, centralized search, and forensic analysis capabilities for both legitimate (clean) and malicious emails. The IRS currently utilizes Cisco IronPort email security infrastructure and an existing Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) method to receive and retain copies of inbound email messages. The IRS is seeking a solution that can integrate with this existing infrastructure and preserve complete, unaltered copies of inbound emails, including message headers, content, metadata, and attachments. The IRS requires an enterprise-level solution that operates independently of individual Microsoft Outlook clients and does not rely on Outlook add-ons, plug-ins, or client-side software for enterprise email collection, retention, search, and forensic analysis. The IRS is interested in commercially available on-premises, virtual, cloud-based, or hybrid solutions. The Government is also interested in alternative technical approaches that can