GSA issues contract for INS benefit tracking system

The General Services Administration has issued a task order worth a potential $31 million to Virginia-based Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) to develop a new authentication system for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Under the contract, CSC will develop, implement and maintain the Verification Information System, a data system designed to respond to local, state and federal agencies so they may verify the status of immigrant workers who apply for benefits under the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program.

The Verification Information System will process queries from more than 50,000 federal, state and local agencies who grant benefits to non-citizens and employers who hire them.

The task order was issued under the Federal Technology Service's Millennia contract, which provides multi-year information technology services to all federal agencies.

"CSC is proud to play a role in helping to ensure the fair and efficient distribution of federal benefits to qualified aliens," said Bob Kennedy, vice president of CSC's Government Enterprise Services business unit, in a statement Thursday.