GTech Unit Wins Miss. Benefits Contract, Loses Colorado Bid

Mississippi selected Transactive Corp., a subsidiary of the lottery processor Gtech, to provide a statewide electronic benefits transfer system.

Transactive, of Austin, Tex., said that along with partners Deposit Guaranty National Bank and Trustmark National Bank, it will negotiate a five-year contract with the Mississippi Department of Human Services to implement the system.

The program will deliver food stamps through point-of-sale terminals at grocery and other retail outlets, and will incorporate a finger-imaging system to detect fraud.

Other technology partners include Dyncorp, Litton/PRC Inc., Minact Inc., and NEC Corp.

The system will be tested with 2,600 households in Rankin County and will expand to 175,000 households and more than 3,800 retail locations, Transactive said.

Elsewhere, Transactive lost the challenge it filed in May to Colorado's selection of Citibank EBT Services as vendor for its electronic public assistance program, with annual volume of $500 million.

Andre Pettigrew, executive director of the Colorado Department of General Support Services, upheld the award to the Citicorp unit, finding six of Transactive's nine protest issues to be without merit.

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