SW-121897 - USA (Washington, DC) - RFI for Recruitment and External Applicant Portal Solutions - Deadline November 23,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide recruitment and external applicant portal solutions.– Provide recruitment, applicant tracking, external applicant portal and position affordability solutions.– Core human capital management (HCM) platform may serve as the authoritative enterprise system for applicable human capital data and transactions.– Acquire and implement a system that enables to efficiently advertise, recruit, assess, and track applicants while strictly adhering to federal hiring requirements.– Solution must feature an external applicant portal that utilizes human–centered design (HCD) to provide candidates with a single, 360–degree view of their hiring process prior to onboarding.– Capabilities of interest include:• Recruitment planning and recruitment campaign management.• Vacancy, job announcement, and applicant tracking.• Federal hiring workflow and assessment support.• Applicant communications, engagement, and self–service.• Secure document collection and management.• Applicant appointment scheduling.• Leadership dashboards, analytics, and reporting.• Integration with Core HCM, identity, clearance, onboarding, training, and other enterprise systems.• Payroll adjustments to budget execution monitoring, payroll projections, workforce costing, position affordability analysis, and scenario modeling.– Provide applicants with a transparent, mobile–ready, and desktop–accessible view of their active applications, current status, required tasks, messages, and relevant points of contact.– Applicant support and omnichannel messaging: Support automated applicant communications through email, SMS and text messaging, and in–portal notifications.– Provide robust business intelligence (BI) and reporting capabilities, including interactive dashboards, configurable visualizations, scheduled reporting, data exports, and role–based access to analytics.(2) All questions must be submitted no later than November 13, 2026.