State terminates 15 contractors as talks continue on refund of software project spending sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
State terminates 15 contractors as talks continue on refund of software project spending
The move will save the state about $206,000 a month, as implementation of a more than $50 million state payroll and human resources system upgrade, first started five years ago, remains in limbo.
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State government will save about $206,000 a month after it released 15 independent contractors who were hired to help the Department of Administration and Financial Services implement a costly new human resources and payroll management system that’s been in the works for nearly a decade.
The nearly $55 million project spans the administrations of the last two governors, one Republican and one Democrat; involves contract cancellations for two different vendors and is now unlikely to be in place before 2022 although posters scattered around offices in state government still promise a January 2020 launch date.
It takes two to tango, says SaaS vendor
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Maine has accused Workday of showing no accountability for its part in a flawed process to replace the US state s HR system.
Following a request for an official review into the $54.6m project, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability has published correspondence that Workday would almost certainly rather remain private.
In a May 2020 letter to the SaaS vendor about the replacement of the state s ageing HR and finance system, Kirsten Figueroa, commissioner of the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services, said the project last year missed two go-live dates.
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With the launch just months away, Maine’s finance agency conducted test runs in early 2020 of a state-of-the-art but costly payroll program slated to replace a decades-old system that state officials said was “held together with duct tape and paperclips.”
The test results did not inspire confidence.
More than 50 percent of the payroll tests contained errors – a major red flag, given that that system was supposed to begin handling the paychecks and benefits for 13,000 state employees starting on April 1 of that year. The subsequent decision to delay the launch for a second time was a turning point that eventually led to the state’s decision to cancel the contract and seek $22 million back from the company, Workday Inc.
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