Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has secured a potential 13-year, $341M task order to support the Internal Revenue Service™s information technology modernization effort, FCW reported Thursday.
Nancy Sieger, acting chief information officer at IRS, said the task order awarded through the General Services Administration™s $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract vehicle will support the IRS’ client-facing services.
She told the publication the EIS vehicle is for the backbone of the tax agency™s internet and communications systems, which are critical to the IRS™ effort to further develop a set of client-facing capabilities.
The telecoms backbone “supports our contact centers, our IRS.gov website and our internal capabilities. It’s a major component of our modernization plan,” Sieger said.
