Va DMV halts computer systems redesign

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The Associated Press
© May 28, 2011

RICHMOND

Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles has halted work temporarily on an overhaul of its customer-service computer systems as it exits a deal with a contractor on the project.

The agency has spent $23.7 million over five years on the $69.9 million systems redesign. It entered a contract last year with consulting firm Accenture to design and adopt the new system. DMV said a disagreement arose over how much of the project work would be done on-site, and how much would originate from Accenture's global-delivery network.

An agency spokeswoman tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the deal with Accenture is over but DMV still expects to complete the project on time and within budget by 2013. Accenture officials say they don't expect their firm or the state of Virginia to face penalties.

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Incredible and this makes no sense. We could buy the best

Submitted by henry on Sat, 05/28/2011 at 5:59 pm.

computer system I can think of with all the mirrored disk space for all the scanned documents and pictures of every person in Virginia and build the software from scratch and we still wouldn't spend 40 million and it wouldn't take but 2 to 3 years. This is incredible mismanagement from all involved.

Let me say Bank of America has a system with 4 generations of pictures of 35 million customers and the credit card statements of 55 million customers going back 7 years. The system also contains scanned documents from customers and pictures of failed products. The entire system did not cost anywhere near $30 million to build and it has sub-second response time with as many as 300 hundred thousand con-current users.

DMV Project

Submitted by USArmyVeteran on Sat, 05/28/2011 at 1:29 pm.

Well looks like another example of wasting the taxpayers money, without getting what they contracted for in the first place. $23.7 million down the down the drain, when they could have used that money to do the job themselves in the first place. But No,that would have been logical,instead they paid for a partial job and got partial work. Just another example of our "government at work". Everything is going up except my Social Security,which the Govt is trying hard to cut it out.Are we better off now then we were 40 years ago? I don't think so, and they call this "progress". If this is "Progress", they can keep it!