G2X TAKE: Beating out five other bidders, Astor & Sanders Corporation (Astor), a woman-owned small business and enterprise-wide IT solutions provider, with expertise in Enterprise Application Services, Big Data & Analytics, Infrastructure Support, and Service Desk & Contact Center Services, recently added this 4-year contract to help ensure the proper operation and network capacity are in place to allow the IRS to process millions of returns and issue billions of dollars in refunds each year. This contract was competed and awarded using 8(a) STARS II. Take Bytes Led by President & CEO, Sadhna Agrawal, Astor is a known quantity at IRS having supported high-profile efforts such as Network Convergence Site Deployment Support and VOIP convergence efforts from pilot project to full implementation. Astor recently recruited veteran FedCiv Proposal Development Leader,  Nils van den Beemt.