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Verizon Lands $341M IRS Task Order Under EIS Telecom Contract


Jeff Brody

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.

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