GSA-chosen EDS begins FIPS 201 infrastructure work while competitor Bearing Point scores major agency win
Less than four months since EDS stole some of competitor BearingPoint’s thunder by winning the General Services Agency’s bid for a shared service provider to execute HSPD-12’s ID-card program, BearingPoint is making waves with a major agency contract.
BearingPoint announced Aug. 1 a new contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to perform an Identity and Access Management pilot and implement 112,000 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards that are complaint with the FIPS 201 technological specification. The cards are a requirement for all federal employees and contractors under the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12).
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