PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Chafee administration says a yearslong project to upgrade the Division of Motor Vehicles computer system is being delayed again.
The Providence Journal (https://bit.ly/1gebA3f ) reports that Director of Administration Richard Licht says they will not be ready to go live on May 5. That date was set last year under a revised contract with Hewlett-Packard.
The upgrade was approved by the General Assembly in 2006 and was originally supposed to cost less than $9 million. That number has now grown to nearly $16 million.
Licht told lawmakers at a recent House Finance Committee hearing that the project has not gone as well as anyone would like, and said they and Hewlett-Packard still don’t know the “root cause” of the problem.
Rep. Eileen Naughton says the project “has miserably failed.”
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Information from: The Providence Journal, https://www.providencejournal.com
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