EXPERT FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES (U.S. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTOR)

Overview

This is a pre-solicitation notice prepared in accordance with Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) 5.101(c). The purpose of this notice is to:

• alert industry of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)’s intent to release a solicitation for commercial expert financial advisory services on https://www.sam.gov/ in or around June 2026, with contract award anticipated in or around July 2026; and
   
• encourage interested firms to complete, execute, and submit the attached forms as soon as possible to ensure full access to the solicitation documentation.
   

This is NOT a request for proposals or quotations, and in no way obligates the Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract.

Concise Description of Services

PBGC, a wholly owned U.S Government corporation, administers the pension plan termination insurance program established by Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. PBGC protects the retirement income of approximately 44 million workers in more than 27,000 private defined benefit pension plans and monitors the corporate events and transactions of defined benefit pension plan sponsors to mitigate risks to the insurance program and increase overall plan funding levels.

PBGC’s Corporate Finance and Restructuring Department requires the assistance of an experienced financial advisory services firm with proven experience in the U.S. information technology (IT) sector leading large distress valuation and turnaround engagements and/or representing clients in a lead capacity on large and complex restructuring and/or bankruptcy transactions involving enterprises with funded debt exceeding $4 billion. PBGC will place particularly high value on prior experience with the PBGC pension termination process and on contractor personnel with relevant expert testimony experience.

Eligibility

All responsible sources will have an opportunity to submit a quotation for PBGC to consider. To be eligible for award a firm will need to have:

• experience providing in-court or out-of-court restructuring advisory services to a debtor or creditor in a case in which the debtor had at least $4 billion in funded debt at the time of filing for bankruptcy or at the initiation of an out-of-court restructuring; and
• executed and submitted the paperwork attached to this announcement (which will also be available with the solicitation).

Instructions for Interested Firms

Due to the sensitive nature of this work, PBGC will not furnish a copy of the performance work statement (PWS) with the public solicitation. Instead, it will provide the PWS only to responsible firms that complete and submit the attached paperwork (the Intent to Compete and Non-Disclosure Agreement) to the points of contact identified in this announcement. Although firms will still have an opportunity to submit this paperwork after the solicitation is posted, PBGC highly encourages interested firms to submit the paperwork immediately to the identified points of contact to ensure maximum opportunity to review the PWS and prepare their responses.