Ohio is pulling plug on contracts
Source: By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press (OH), Thursday, May 17, 2007
The state is ending contracts that paid outside consultants millions of dollars to oversee a massive computer project already chock-full of other consultants and dozens of state employees. Billing by one contractor cost the state $4.8 million in just one year; annual salaries for other consultants ranged from a high of $500,000 to a low of $200,000. Those jobs paid a rate far above the average $64,000 salary earned by the 114 state employees also assigned to the project, according to state records.
…….. The largest private company working on OAKS is consulting firm Accenture LLP, which has on average about 100 workers assigned to the project as part of an $85 million contract the company won two years ago.