"The Department of Labor hastened its transition to the new governmentwide contract for modernizing IT and telecommunications with the award of three major task orders." "DOL made all three multi-million-dollar awards — worth $805.9 million total — to Verizon under the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract Friday, according to task order documents." "The department was 54% of the way toward transitioning off the expiring Networx contract by the General Services Administration‘s deadline of Sept. 30, 2022, as of early August, but this is a marked advancement." "The first task order is for 12 years and $631.5 million covering managed network, data, voice and toll-free services at DOL sites nationwide. The design, engineering, provisioning, management, transition, and maintenance of new and existing telecom infrastructure is included…" Read the full article here. Source: Labor awards $805.9M in EIS task orders for modernizing telecom - By Dave Nyczepir, September 28, 2020. FedScoop.