The Government Accountability Office denied Equifax’s protest of an IRS award to Experian for identity management and taxpayer fraud protection services.
Because of delays incurred as a result of the protest, IRS awarded an extension to Equifax’s existing contract. That move that touched off a firestorm of criticism on Capitol Hill, with lawmakers expressing anger and alarm that the vendor would win an identity management award less than a month after it announced a breach in which sensitive personal data of up to 145 million Americans was compromised.
