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06/28/05
IRS search for public records access ends with ChoicePoint
By Doug Beizer
Contributing Staff Writer
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded ChoicePoint Government Services a contract worth as much as $20 million to serve as the agency's public records provider for batch processing projects, according to the company.
Under a five-year contract, ChoicePoint will provide the IRS with access to its suite of custom data solutions. IRS officials will use ChoicePoint’s public records data capabilities
to support customized data retrieval requirements.
ChoicePoint provides public records information about a person, asset or location, a company spokesperson said. The information can include current and former addresses, property ownership records and bankruptcy, lien or judgment information.
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Batch processing involves the automated delivery and processing of data files, which
reduces the need for human intervention. More than 25 federal agencies use ChoicePoint batch solutions to support their daily activities, company officials said.
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http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36239-1.htmlIRS Hires ChoicePoint To Leak Your Info
Contributed by Mike on Thursday, June 30th, 2005 @ 01:08AM
ChoicePoint is the personal data company that kicked off this sudden focus on data leaks by cheerfully handing over thousands of records to a bunch of crooks who had no business with the data. So, now that our government is planning to put in place stricter laws punishing such activity, how do they reward ChoicePoint? Politech notes that the IRS has handed over a huge contract to ChoicePoint. That'll show them. Of course, perhaps even more worrisome is the fact that the IRS will now be using this info to checkup on tax payers, when reviews of ChoicePoint's data has shown repeatedly that its data is often wrong -- with many people seeing criminal records when they've never been in trouble. Also, it's worth pointing out that ChoicePoint is a spinoff from Equifax, the company whose CEO tap danced around whether or not they've leaked any data and claimed that letting you see what data they had on you was unconstitutional and un-American. Doesn't that make you feel safer?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050630/017242_F.shtmlI don't know why an off-shore company like Accenture (formerly part of enron's auditor Arthur Andersen) gets so many federal contracts. Of course, Accenture took over FL's voter database after ChoicePoint, personally handpicked by Katherine Harris. Accenture has been awarded IRS contracts.
Wouldn't trust Accenture any further than you could throw ChoicePoint.
Quest, another one of our curious corporations, hosts the IRS website.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/864391What is TIPSS?
TIPSS-3 large business awardees are:
Accenture LLP of Chicago (yeah, right ... try Bermuda)
Apogen Technologies Inc. of McLean, Va.
BearingPoint Inc. of McLean, Va.
Booz Allen Hamilton
CGI-AMS Inc. of Montreal
Computer Sciences Corp.
EDS Corp.
FC Business Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va.
IBM Corp.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Management Systems Designers Inc. of Fairfax, Va.
Northrop Grumman Corp.
QSS Group Inc. of Lanham, Md.
Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego
Unisys Corp.
TIPSS-3 small business awardees are:
ActioNet Inc. of Fairfax, Va.
Avineon Inc. of Alexandria, Va.
Catapult Technology Ltd. of Bethesda, Md.
InSysCo Inc. of Fredericksburg, Va.
Inter Image Inc. of Arlington, Va.
Pragmatics Inc. of McLean, Va.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/WT_Top100/27382-1.htmlDynamics Awarded $2.5 Million IRS Contract
Dynamics Research Corporation announced that it has been awarded a nine month, $2.5 million contract by the Internal Revenue Service to modernize the agency's information technology systems and legacy databases.
The IRS faces a daunting challenge that extends across all Federal government agencies to modernize its information technology systems quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. For this contract, DRC will partner with Oracle Corporation to execute and support the conversion of the IRS' legacy DB2 databases to Oracle databases, a transition process that will significantly aid and support the agency's modernization efforts.
The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract initiated February 23, 2004 falls under the Treasury Information Processing Support Services (TIPSS) contract vehicle. As the IRS continues to place more of its information technology modernization efforts within this vehicle, DRC, as a prime contractor under TIPSS, is well positioned to partner with the IRS on additional modernization efforts going forward.
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http://www.taborcommunications.com/hpcwire/hpcwireWWW/04/0305/107178.htmlhttp://www.drc.com/ (Dynamics Research Corp.)