Posted on 06/07/2004 11:44:30 AM PDT by NormalGuy
could be worth as much as $10 billion.
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it has picked Accenture as the prime contractor for US-Visit, an IT-based system that will control entry of foreigners into the country. The five-year contract, which could be lengthened to 10 years, could be worth up to $10 billion. Some people questioned whether the U.S. government would award Accenture the contract because it's incorporated in Hamilton, Bermuda. But only a handful of employees are situated there; 25,000 of Accenture's 90,000 workers are based in the United States. Accenture, with operations in 48 countries, says it maintains no corporate headquarters.
The government began to solicit bids in November, with contractors submitting them in January. The US-Visit Program Office led the source selection process, supported closely by department's border-management unit, representatives from other Homeland Security offices, as well as the State and Justice departments.
According to Homeland Security, each proposal was evaluated on four key factors: the business and technical solutions suggested to achieve the vision of US-Visit as an end-to-end management system; the management approach and proven capability to deliver a complex set of solutions; and the development and implementation strategy to deploy US-Visit entry and exit capabilities at the 50 busiest land ports of entry. Cost was also a major factor considered in the award decision.
Asa Hutchinson, Homeland Security's undersecretary of border and transportation security, said in a statement announcing Accenture's selection that the award marks an important milestone in the history of homeland security. "By harnessing the power of the best minds in the private sector, we have taken a major step toward accomplishing our goals of enhancing the security of our country while increasing efficiency at our borders," he said.
Accenture will provide a range of professional services, including strategic support, design and integration activities, technical solutions, deployment activities, training, and organizational change management.
The government's vision of US-Visit is to deploy end-to-end management and sharing of data on foreign nationals covering their interactions with federal officials before they enter the United States, when they enter, while they are here, and when they exit. Hutchinson contends that this comprehensive view of border management will lead to the creation of a virtual border and will set a course for improved processes to manage and share data on foreign nationals.
Since deploying US-Visit entry capabilities at 115 airports and 14 seaports on Jan. 5, more than 4.5 million foreign nationals have been processed without adversely impacting wait times, Homeland Security says, adding that since its launch, US-Visit has helped the government intercept more than 500 people with prior or suspected criminal or immigration violations. These include convicted rapists, drug traffickers, individuals convicted of credit-card fraud, a convicted armed robber, and numerous immigration violators and people using falsified documents.
US-Visit requires that most foreigners traveling to the United States on a visa and arriving at an airport or seaport have their two index fingers scanned and digital photographs taken to verify their identities at the port of entry. By Sept. 30, this process will also apply to visitors traveling under the visa waiver program at all airports and seaports of entry.
3 words "National Security Risk" .. one more.. "treason"
Bravo Sierra. They pay taxes on their US operations. They pay far more taxes than you do, actually.
But here you are, cheerleading for a tax code that punishes those who seek to export out of this country...
That's right. They're too busy making money to contribute a dime to the medical care of our wounded veterans coming home from Iraq. And some dare call this an American Company? The words should be as bitter ashes in their mouths!
Actually, those bitter ashes in your mouth are probably what's left of your brains...
you are crazy, everyone knows the rest of the world would never do anything to hurt us.
they just want to be our friends.
my shift key isn't working currently ;-0
This corporation payed more in American taxes than did Lockheed-Martin (one of the "American" companies that lost on this $10 Bil contract.) Accentures ability to prove this fact to the U.S. government was one of the factor's in their selection.
Maybe you need to modify your definition. Or maybe, the concept of American vs. Foreign corporations is no longer valid?
They are no more an American company then is GM, GE, Ford. They all have no loyalty to this country, they all have the majority of their workers overseas, all of these are what I like to call Multinational Whores.
Yea, there is no longer any such thing as American whatever any longer, that is what yall globalist want and you've pretty much achieved it. Hope yall enjoy the global socialist state that yall are leaving your children. Won't it be nice once you've killed the last remaining remanents of the American Constitution and Americanism, then the world will be safe for slef appointed elites such as yourselves.
GM, GE, and Ford are all headquatered in the USA with a US corporate charter.
And instead of demanding a massive reform of how America taxes (and, hence, punishes) the productive, you whine about the productive leaving.
Adam Smith's invisible hand is giving you the extended middle digit. Deal with it...
Yea, I worked as hard as I could to elect Steve Forbes for precisely that purpose, but yall Bushies, poo poo him and elected W instead. Now that EVERYTHING I told ya would happen is happening it's all my fault. Hahahaha, you and your selective memory are TOO MUCH. Yall defend the status qou and then when the *** hits the fan yall convinently forget just how stupit you really were.
I wasn't aware that Forbes was running in the 2000 general election...
What are you two, idiots?
They pay taxes on all of the business they complete inside of the United States. The problem is that the federal government wants to also tax the money they earn in other countries. Say for example...Greece.
Greece taxes the money they make and then the US Government turns around and wants to tax the income a second time. It is inherently incorrect.
Stop being a tool. Sheesh.
My, what remarkably twisted logic! Here we have a corporation that evades U.S. taxes, and you wish to defend them!
I suppose that you'll start championing the cause of illegal aliens next. They're here illegally, they evade taxes, but they purportedly keep prices down for consumers. That is the one thing you care about, right?
Actually, those bitter ashes in your mouth are probably what's left of your brains...
That's right, poohbah, defend the tax evaders. Anything to hurt America, right?
Perhaps the fault you perceive in others is merely a reflection of your own failing.
It is telling that you place the advantages of an offshore corporation ahead of the interests of the United States. How very patriotic of you. (/sarcasm)
Why did you choose to gloss over this fact, when the basis of your definition of "American corporation" is the payment of U.S. taxes?
Yeah, I'm defending them because the tax code is indefensibly wrong.
I have no problem with taxing a business on their operations here in America.
Taxing them on their operations outside of America--where they're already taxed, BTW--is just plain stupid. And we're the ONE major country in the world that does that.
I suppose that you'll start championing the cause of illegal aliens next. They're here illegally, they evade taxes, but they purportedly keep prices down for consumers. That is the one thing you care about, right?
Kindly differentiate between LEGAL means of reducing one's tax liability and ILLEGAL immigration.
That's right, poohbah, defend the tax evaders. Anything to hurt America, right?
You're the one shilling for double taxation of profits, not me. You're the one hurting America.
Or trying to keep it's development outside US law and oversight.
Remember this system is next to useless without everybody being in it.
The development work is being done inside America.
About the only way Accenture is an "offshore corporation" is if you define a corporation's nationality by where the mail drop is...and nothing else.
Hahahahah that line is classic!
I am stealing it!
And damn it, I want MY PONY!!!!!!!!!!
Forget about the pony, we're still doomed.
Man for real some of you dopes need to just end it all. Without a doubt the cerebral capacity of our nation would surely rise if you were to do so.
Haha...it is sad to see just how dumb some of you are.
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