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Article: What a mess: how Census Bureau botched IT procurement.
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- Set-Aside Alert
- Article date:
- April 18, 2008
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The Census Bureau began moving in 2004 to develop handheld computers to collect data for the 2010 population count. This month the Bureau said the technology would not be ready in time. Door-to-door enumerators will fill out paper forms, as they have since 1790.
According to officials in the Census Bureau, Congress, the Government Accountability Office and contractors, the automation project failed because Census could not provide a clear set of requirements to its contractor, Harris Corp. Harris's president of civil programs, Cheryl Janey, said, "In other words, we have designed what the Census Bureau asked for, but what they have asked for may not be what they ...