Plexus Scientific Awarded New Contract to Help the IRS with
its Digital Tax Media Challenges

Alexandria, VA., April, 2008—Plexus Scientific Corporation was awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement to continue providing IT services to the IRS’ Media and Publications (M&P) group.  Plexus will assist M&P in the design, development, production, maintenance, and distribution of digital tax media.  This is a one-year contract with four option years and an award value of up to $5 million per year, and allows Plexus to continue providing the lifecycle production support services to the M&P that it has been doing for the last seven years.   

Under this agreement, Plexus will help the IRS as it faces ever-increasing challenges such as implementing tax law changes, increasing services in an expanding global and multilingual environment, a loss in skilled workforce due to the impending retirement of the baby boomer population, and improving customer and employee satisfaction.  Over the past seven years, Plexus has supported new authoring/publishing solutions and worked with the agency on technology insertion efforts such as digital talking books, SCORM ELearning standards, and XML.  Working with the IRS’ Alternative Media Center and Adobe Systems, Plexus helped pioneer the agency’s flagship Talking Tax Forms, an extraordinary breakthrough in media technology that offers the visually impaired a method for doing their taxes online and on their own.  Plexus created the roadmap for the screen-reading software that makes the IRS’ voluminous PDF forms accessible (readable) to the visually impaired. 

Mike Reingruber, Vice President of Plexus’ Business Solutions Group, said that “Plexus is very pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with the IRS.  This new award will allow us to continue our support for the Media & Publications group and ensure uninterrupted progress across tax forms and publications, publishing, and distribution initiatives.”

Founded in 1985, Plexus Scientific is an employee-owned consulting firm offering environmental, safety, information technology, regulatory, and business solutions services to the Federal government and industry clients.  The firm’s operations are structured along distinct lines of business that correlate with our clients’ diverse and complex needs.  The company supports all branches of the U.S. military, DoD agencies, the intelligence community, the Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, other U.S. Government civil agencies, and clients in selected industry markets.

For more information, visit the Plexus web site at www.plexsci.com.