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Contract With Customer, Extended Term Of Contract

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Contract With Customer, Number Of Options To Extend

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Contract With Customer, Term Of Contract

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The number of contracts under which the Company provides outsourced state portal services or software development and digital government services that can be terminated by the other party without cause on a specified period of notice.

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The number of contracts under which the Company provides outsourced portal services or software development and digital government services that have expiration dates within the 12-month period following the most recent Balance Sheet date of the filing.

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Number Of Contracts With Renewal Provisions

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Revenue from NIC subsidiaries operating state and local government portals on an outsourced basis (primarily transaction-based information access fees and filings), and revenue from service contracts to provide portal consulting, application development and management services to state and local governments.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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OUTSOURCED GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (Details) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
OUTSOURCED GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (Details) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($) renewal_option contract	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($) contract	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)
Contracts [Line Items]
Performance bond commitments \| $	$ 38.2	$ 38.2
Termination without cause contracts \| State enterprise contracts
Contracts [Line Items]
Number of contracts that can be terminated	14	14
Termination without cause contracts \| Software & services revenues
Contracts [Line Items]
Number of contracts that can be terminated	3	3
Termination without cause contracts \| Government contracts concentration risk \| Consolidated revenues
Contracts [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage		48.00%
Expiring contracts
Contracts [Line Items]
Number of contracts that expire within the 12-month period	11	11
Contract expiration period following year end		12 months
Number of contracts with renewal provisions		5
Expiring contracts \| Government contracts concentration risk \| Consolidated revenues
Contracts [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage		28.00%
Texas legacy contract
Contracts [Line Items]
Severance costs \| $			$ 1.0
Texas legacy contract \| Government contracts concentration risk \| Consolidated revenues
Contracts [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage			14.00%
State enterprise revenue \| $			$ 49.0
Payment processing service contracts \| State of Florida
Contracts [Line Items]
Term of contract	5 years
Number of options to extend \| renewal_option	1
Term of contract extension	5 years
Enterprise-wide digital government service contracts \| State of Iowa
Contracts [Line Items]
Term of contract	5 years
Term of contract extension	5 years