State computer project costs 7 times more than estimate - and counting

SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
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 only $9.6 million in property.

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