Procurement Research

Overview

Development stage

In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.

High-impact designation

Presumed high-impact, determined notSource: b) Presumed high-impact, but determined not high impact

Impact justification

Research effort may examine AI bias (e.g. large vs. small business) in drafting procurement documents as market research / proposal evaluation. Research effort and not an operational use case where AI will make or influence government decisions.

Start date

Not reported

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

Generative AI is new to the acquisition workforce. User research is needed to determine how to make AI-powered procurement systems easy-to-use, highly functional, and accurate for agency employees performing procurement tasks. Further, there is little research on which AI models are most performant for federal procurement tasks. An objective evaluation is needed to compare commercial AI models and possibly fine-tune or otherwise improve AI models for the federal procurement domain.

Expected benefits

America’s AI Action Plan, dated July 2025, calls AI procurement toolbox managed by the General Services Administration (GSA), in coordination with OMB, that facilitates uniformity across the Federal enterprise to the greatest extent practicable. This system would allow any Federal agency to easily choose among multiple models. Agencies should also have ample flexibility to customize models to their own ends, as well as to see a catalog of other agency AI uses. Treasury is well-positioned to make a significant contribution and advance the state of the art in AI models used for procurement tasks.

System outputs

Generative AI outputs narrative for procurement documents.

Technology

AI classification

Generative AISource: Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).

System name(s)

Not reported

Custom-developed code

Not reported

Public source code

Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built

Not reported

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

Not reported

Privacy Impact Assessment

Not reported

Authorization to Operate

Not reported

Demographic features

Not reported

Training and evaluation data

Not reported

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.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported