From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500AM
By Jared Serbu
The Internal Revenue Service has notified a relative handful of contractors that it plans to spend nearly $130 million to build its own new suite of identity verification services, an approach that appears to significantly diverge from an established governmentwide program to verify users’ identities.
The agency issued a request for quotations on April 30, just weeks before officials announced that their existing identity safeguards had been breached by a criminal syndicate that stole detailed tax transcripts on 104,000 taxpayers. The IRS published details of the procurement via the General Services Administration’s eBuy platform, which is only visible to existing GSA schedule contractors and lets the government choose which vendors to notify about a particular solicitation.
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