TREAS · TREAS-17 · record R2813

DATA Act Bot for Procurement Data Matching

Department of the Treasury · Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Overview

Development stage: DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
High-impact designation: Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
Impact justification: The output is not presumed to be high-impact and is not used as the principal basis for significant decisions/actions
Start date: 2022-03-31 (day precision)Source: 3/31/2022
Withheld from public reporting: NoSource: a) No

Mission

Topic area: Procurement and Financial Management
Operational functions: Procurement and acquisition Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

AI is used to validate whether public contract spending reporting matches the information in PDF contract documents. The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act requires consistent and reliable contract spending to be reported to the public in the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). AI powered bot automates comparing FPDS data with contract documents to improve the quality of contract spending reporting.

Expected benefits

Policymakers and the taxpaying public can benefit by receiving higher quality, more reliable contract spending data that has been vetted by AI powered data validation. This contract spending data is available to the public on USASpending.gov.

System outputs

AI model validates that contract spending information reported to USASpending.gov matches contract documents. The system validates the consistency of contract metadata such as contract number, modification number, dollar amounts, contract work / place of performance location address, and contract dates.

Technology

AI classification: Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.
System name(s): Not reported
Custom-developed code: Yes
Public source code: Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built: Contract and in-houseSource: c) Developed with both contracting and in-house resources
Vendor (as reported): Not reported
Vendors (standardized): None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII: No
Privacy Impact Assessment: www.irs.gov ↗
Authorization to Operate: Yes
Demographic features: k) None of the above
Training and evaluation data: Contract documents and data from the Federal Procurement Data System.
Federal Data Catalog: Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported

AI impact assessmentNo answer reported

Independent reviewNo answer reported

Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported

Operator trainingNo answer reported

Fail-safeNo answer reported

Appeal processNo answer reported

User and public consultationNo answer reported

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported