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Article: Tab for state project soars Computer effort costs 7 times estimate - and counting
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2009
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By PATRICK MARLEY
Madison -- An effort to consolidate state computer servers has
cost $90.9 million so far -- more than seven times the original
$12.8 million estimate, according to a sweeping report Thursday by
the Legislative Audit Bureau. And by the time the project is
completed next summer, it will cost almost nine times as much.
The computer project is part of a broad effort to streamline
state government launched by Gov. Jim Doyle in March 2005 that has
been hampered by unexpected costs and delays.
Under one provision of the Accountability, Consolidation and
Efficiency program, known as ACE, the state was to sell $40 million
worth of land and buildings over four years but actually shed ...