Government awards blanket purchase agreements to two credit bureaus

Your tax dollars are primed and ready. The credit reporting agencies now are drooling, waiting for the next huge data breach anywhere within the government. When it happens—ka-ching. FCW has more.

Three firms received blanket purchase agreements Aug. 14 to give agencies credit-monitoring services following several thefts or losses of federal employees’ laptop computers containing personal information.

The General Services Administration awarded the BPAs to Equifax, Experian Consumer Direct and Bearak Reports, a small, woman-owned firm, according to the agency.