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Scathing audit released last week that slams the Admin Office of the Courts’ handling of a $2 billion, 7-yr-long statewide court computer system project.
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https://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/13/3396586/yet-another-state-snafu-that-doesnt.html
Editorial: Yet another state snafu that doesn’t compute
Published: Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 6E
Last Modified: Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 – 10:14 am
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Has another state information technology project gone badly wrong? Will it have to be scrapped?
That’s the obvious question raised by a scathing audit released last week that slams the Administrative Office of the Courts’ handling of a $2 billion, seven-year-long statewide court computer system project.
The AOC inadequately planned for the California Court Case Management System from the beginning, auditors concluded. It failed to analyze the basics – whether the computer system, as conceived, “would be a cost beneficial solution to the superior courts’ needs.”
Court administrators structured a contract with the vendor that made it impossible to control costs. Warranties for the computer systems expired before the systems were even deployed. That meant the courts were on the hook for 102 amendments required over seven years that raised the cost to vendors tenfold, from $33 million to $310 million. They consistently underestimated the real price tag for the entire project. In 2004 they said it would cost $260 million, but by 2010, AOC cost estimates had climbed to $1.9 billion.
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