BBV: Research project - will someone help please?

[GregD]

The following message arrived today. So many of you are so good at researching things, I wanted to share it with you and see if anyone can "connect the dots". Thanks...

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I have a friend living in the Houston area who mention that her undergrad son applied for an summer 2004 internship with a recently new company called "Protiviti". I found out through her that this company consists of a majority of Anderson Accounting x employees. Throughout this conversation I found out that they handle alot of odd projects and one of them that sparked an interest to me was their involvement with the voting system with some counties in the state of Texas.

Now alarms went off when I heard x-Anderson employees and the voting process. I tried to google the company's name and got nowhere.
My request to you all is what is Protiviti and who specifically owns it and what specifically do they do?

And what are the gov't counties in Texas doing with this private company in reference to voting.
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[nostamj]

1. here's their website

http://www.protiviti.com

Who is Protiviti?

Protiviti is the leading firm dedicated exclusively to risk consulting and internal audit. We help our clients seize new opportunities for growth and profitability while protecting them from their risks.

Protiviti offers objective insights. We provide knowledge and services that are free from conflicts of interest.

Protiviti has hundreds of senior professionals located in all the major U.S. markets. We provide on-location services, technologies, and skills to our clients, anywhere in the world


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no mention i've found about voting though...

[Generic Other]

10. privatize profits, make the public assume the risks?

They sound like they have the corporate line down!

[aquart]

2. Google

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Protiviti>

[seemslikeadream]

3. Protiviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half International

www.rhii.com

Protiviti is a recognized leader in working with public and private companies on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.

[soup]

4. little bit here

CRASH LANDINGS? Where some former Andersen employees went

Firm U.S. Hires

BearingPoint * 1,575
Deloitte & Touche 2,500
Ernst & Young 2,300
Grant Thornton 500
KPMG 2,200
PricewaterhouseCoopers 660
Protiviti (subsid. of Rob't Half) 760

Source: The companies

* Formerly KPMG Consulting

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3870/1_19/96379106/p2/article.jhtml?term=

[aquart]

5. Who is Robert Half?

Robert Half International seems to be the parent company. They do a lot of staffing of auditing and financial professionals.



"... RHI is also the parent company of Protiviti, a leading internal audit and ... actual
and potential implications of “color-blindness” for the voting rights of ..."

[seemslikeadream]

6. Max Messmer CEO of Robert Half wrote the book

Job Hunting for Dummies

Harold "Max" Messmer owns 58,900 shares of Health Care Property Investors Inc. He owns 1,404,021 shares of Robert Half International

[phoebe]

7. RHI teamed up with Accenture which as we know is in the voting

"business"..Also find it interesting that Protiviti was chosen to "audit" the Sarbannes-Oxley bill (and call me a cynic) but an anti-money laundering booklet from them has made news recently as well..

http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20031112/12nov2003211921.html

[soup]

8. does this mean anything?

REPORT PDJ50R01 HARRIS COUNTY PURCHASING DEPARTMENT PAGE 1
RUN DATE 12/01/03 LISTING OF CURRENT TERM CONTRACTS BY DESCRIPTION



030246 FAC, TECHNICAL ELECTION SUPPORT FOR THE COUNTY CLERK 01 07/01/03 06/30/04 06/17/03 07687 PROTIVITI INC
3 RENEWAL OPTIONS REMAINING
CONTACT: VIVIAN GROCE PHONE#: [phone]

http://www.pur.hctx.net/bids/contracts.txt

on edit: Whatever it is they're doing for Harris county, it's a large contract.

Term Contract for Technical Election Support for the County Clerk's Office


Estimated Cost: $1,046,250.00 Award# 0 Ref. C.O.

>snip<
11 . Protiviti, Inc. $994,950.00
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:OnH9jZngMoUJ:www.pur.hctx.net/tabs/2003/061703.doc+protiviti+county+election&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[GregD]

9. Isn't that a fat little contract.

Makes one wonder what they are doing with all that loot.