Another major problem in consulting projects is accountability. There is no central repository of data on major consulting firm's success rates, and there is no

Another major problem in consulting projects is accountability. There is no central repository of data on major consulting firm's success rates, and there is no way for most administrators to objectively determine the risk associated with a given consulting project. However, there is significant risk associated with the failure of an in-house initiative from the perspective of government employees, just as there is in the corporate world: it is easy and low-risk to blame contractors for failure, but if you are the one managing development there is no one to blame but you.