The IRS spent $12 million on an unusable email system, according to a
report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
The agency purchased two years’ worth of email software subscriptions
before finding out the system was not unusable.

The IRS was required to procure new software because of a 2014 Office of
Management and Budget directive that required federal agencies to manage
permanent and temporary email records starting December 2016.

As the report notes, the IRS failed to perform the required and necessary
cost analysis, security assessments, and requirements analysis prior to
purchasing the software. As the report notes:


http://bit.ly/2eiDL7E
http://bit.ly/2eiDL7E+


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