State to pay Accenture $58 million to update aging IT systems

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Gov. Scott Walker's administration has signed a $58 million information technology contract with Accenture, the same company that was paid millions of dollars but failed to deliver a fully functional voter registration system to the state seven years ago.

Deputy Department of Administration Secretary Chris Schoenherr told The Associated Press on Thursday that Accenture learned from its mistakes that led to the voter registration contract being canceled in 2007.

Wisconsin awarded Accenture the contract to oversee a previously delayed complete overhaul of the state's various computer systems last month. Accenture scored higher than the only other bidder, Cherry Road, and the bid process was reviewed by an independent law firm and found to be fair and impartial.

Accenture is one of the country's largest technology consulting firms. President Barack Obama's administration recently turned to Accenture to take over control of running the much-maligned federal health insurance website.

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[Scuba]

1. Accenture = Arthur Anderson = Enron Scammers

Except they changed their name and moved their HQ offshore to dodge taxes. Anyone surprised our Governer (sic) is in bed with these criminals?

[Ed Suspicious]

2. They can't source the job to a Wisconsin company? I'm sure there are companies in our

state that are up to the task.