I still think it’s odd that this contract was for only $13,000, is that typical of a contract to back up emails of 100,000 employees? We could be looking at the wrong contract. There are other contracts in the contract database that were for document storage, and for much larger amounts.
You could be right.
The timing is suspicious.
I agree. What is missing is drilling down to IT event logs, work tickets, etc as well as the nuts and bolts of data retention and storage policy and procedure. Where is the IRS data vault?
If there were a sexual harassment suit involving an IRS employee, that vault would be accessed in a New York minute.