California threatens to shut down procurement agency_2
17 August 2012
California’s state procurement agency is set to be shut down after auditors reported that its purchase of computer software could cost taxpayers $41 million more than necessary.
All 69 staff at the Department of Information Technology (DOIT), created in 1995 to oversee the state’s IT policy and purchases, could lose their jobs.
State funding is likely to end on 1 July after the audit revealed that, almost a year since the contract with Oracle had been signed, no state employees were using the software.
Legislators are furious that...