December 09, 2006
IRS No To Outsourcing
This didn’t sound right from the start so when the plan was shelved, you probably had the urge to say, “I told you so”. Those not in the know, let me update you: The Internal Revenue Service has decided to shelve a plan that would have seen it outsource the management and maintenance of more than 100,000 desktop computers at facilities across the nation to a private contractor.
An IRS spokesman explained that this would be a huge and complex undertaking and hence they’d decided to pull back. The IRS had been in preliminary talks with technology vendors about the plan but no deals had been signed. Informationweek.com reports:
The halting of the plan is unrelated to the fact that the IRS has a poor track record when it comes to managing large outsourcing projects, the spokesman insists. In the most recent foul up, the agency issued more than $318 million in refunds on phony returns last year because of a botched software project, a government report released earlier this year concluded. The project had been outsourced to Computer Sciences Corp.
Read more: IRS Deep Sixes Outsourcing Plans As Tax Season Approaches
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