Space agency scraps KPMG for financial management solution
NASA is taking a step in a new direction in replacing its financial information
system, which has been unable to get past Step One for more than a year.
That new path will be without KPMG LLC, the contractor for NASA's Integrated
Financial Management Program. The agency has jettisoned KPMG following a
formal notice sent in January giving the firm 10 days to deliver a plan
to resolve problems with its commercial off-the-shelf software.
KPMG won the $59 million fixed-price contract in September 1997 to deploy
its Performance Series software. After several attempts and more than 18
months of delays, the software still did not work. NASA is considering how
to proceed.
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