The IT Initiative’s Cancellation: June 22, 1999

State of Connecticut Cancels IT Initiative

• Connecticut had spent 2 1/2 years defining and implementing an ambitious, comprehensive IT outsourcing effort

• Other States were looking at Connecticut’s approach as a possible model for state-wide IT outsourcing

• Effort was politically polarizing, strongly opposed by public service unions and opposition political party

• State had been conducting negotiations with selected vendor (EDS) since January

• Governor Rowland cited cost, risk issues in canceling the effort

“Cancellation of the Connecticut IT Initiative will be astake in the heart to future State-wide, comprehensiveIT outsourcing efforts” The Wall Street Journal

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