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According to the audit document, the company was Tech Mahindra. I am genuinely surprised when a 8 to 9 figure software project ever succeeds. But I'm also ama
by atonse 9y ago
According to the audit document, the company was Tech Mahindra.
I am genuinely surprised when a 8 to 9 figure software project ever succeeds.
But I'm also amazed that the government spent $25mil before they realized they got completely bamboozled. There's something shady going on here.
- sandworm101 9y ago>> spent $25mil before they realized they got completely bamboozled. Governments regularly spend that much just on the procurement process, long before the bamboozling can even begin.
- notyourwork 9y agoAs someone who has worked with state funding contracts I disagree that this implies anything shady. Hourly rates for consultants at exorbitantly high. It also depends on how the project is big, fixed feed versus hourly bulk. Regardless, the amount of hours quoted and the rates are inflated based on politics. It's not shady, its just incompetent people signing contracts to promise tech companies bags of money.
- frankharv 9y agoFrom the article: "the project was not managed by the state's Enterprise IT Services division, and was managed solely by outside master service agreement contractors hired through the DMV's internal IT department." If that is not shady I don't know what is.
- matt_s 9y agoIt's not shady, its politics. The DMV IT department didn't want to deal with "corporate" aka Nevada Enterprise IT. Perhaps Nevada IT was too busy digging out of a debacle with healthcare IT systems to be bothered with DMV stuff.