CA spent over $450M on a new 911 system. It's now scrapping the flawed design (opens in new tab)

(sacbee.com)

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This is a story about governments being bad at contracting. If this had been a commercial contract California would be recouping its monies or the vendor would be on the hook to fix it.

svggrfgovgfOP4mo ago

Is this old news? I wasn't able to find anything about it in the LA Times or the SF Chronicle.

ungreased06754mo ago

Smells like fraud and theft.

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balderdash4mo ago

This is a story about governments being bad at contracting. If this had been a commercial contract California would be recouping its monies or the vendor would be on the hook to fix it.

svggrfgovgfOP4mo ago

Is this old news? I wasn't able to find anything about it in the LA Times or the SF Chronicle.

ungreased06754mo ago

Smells like fraud and theft.

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