The IRS will pay Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud under a no-bid contract issued last week, even as lawmakers lash the embattled company about a massive security breach that exposed personal information of as many as 145.5 million Americans.
A contract award for Equifax's data services was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities database Sept. 30 — the final day of the fiscal year. The credit agency will "verify taxpayer identity" and "assist in ongoing identity verification and validations" at the IRS, according to the award.
The notice describes the contract as a "sole source order," meaning Equifax is the only company deemed capable of providing the service. It says the order was issued to prevent a lapse in identity checks while officials resolve a dispute over a separate contract.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/equifax-irs-fraud-protection-contract-243419
(Score: 2, Informative) by Whoever on Friday October 06 2017, @02:26AM (1 child)
See Somalia for a modern-day example of a limited government.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Friday October 06 2017, @01:31PM
As much as people like to beat up on Libertarians and small government people by using Somalia as an example it turns out that in fact no government was better [peterleeson.com] than what they had. When a number of metrics used to judge how a country is doing improve when a government collapses maybe it isn't all bad. Also like most you are falsely equating that no government is the same as small or smaller government.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone