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City of New York OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER SCOTT M. STRINGER COMPTROLLER
A Review of the Management and Fiscal Controls Over the City’s ECTP Upgrade to its Emergency 911 System Marjorie Landa Deputy Comptroller for Audit and Investigations
SR15-063S August 5, 2014 http://comptroller.nyc.gov
TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................ 2 CHRONOLOGY .............................................................................................................. 5 Pre-ECTP Attempts to Upgrade the 911 System ................................................... 5 ECTP: Transition to the Multi-Agency 911 Upgrade ............................................. 6 REPORT OF FINDINGS ................................................................................................. 8 The Project Governance Structure for ECTP Was Weak, Relied Heavily on Outsourcing to Consultants, and Failed to Provide Adequate Controls ............ 8 The Total Costs to the City for its 911 System Upgrade Are Greater Than Previously Announced Cost Projections for ECTP ............................................ 13 CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................. 14 Exhibit 1 ....................................................................................................................... 17 Exhibit 2 ....................................................................................................................... 18 Exhibit 3 ....................................................................................................................... 22 Exhibit 4 ....................................................................................................................... 23
THE CITY OF NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER A Review of the Management and Fiscal Controls Over the City’s ECTP Upgrade to its Emergency 911 System
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On May 19, 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a halt to major work on the Emergency Communications Transformation Program (ECTP) pending reviews of various aspects of the project by the Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT), the Department of Investigation (DOI), and New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer. The administration asked the Comptroller to conduct a review of the history of the project, including its oversight structure and financial management. The following is the report of the review conducted by Comptroller’s Audit and Investigations Bureau in response to the Mayor’s request. The Comptroller’s review found that the ECTP’s governance was inappropriately structured, overly reliant on consultants, and ineffectively monitored, which resulted in a failure to achieve full agency participation and coordination. Instead of strong City governance, the project outsourced critical responsibilities to consultants who were insufficiently accountable to the City. As a consequence of inadequate governance, the project has taken far longer than anticipated, stretching from the initial estimate of five years to the current estimate of fifteen years, with the end date now projected to be 2018. 1 We found that project delays and cost overruns mounted as technical and other difficulties emerged and the existing governance structure, the project consultants, and assigned personnel proved inadequate to address the project’s needs. These problems did not go unnoticed. As the ECTP failed to deliver critical products on time and on budget, various reports and analyses were produced with a myriad of recommendations for improvement. Just three years into what was supposed to be a five-year project, DoITT recommended rebidding the main contract for system integration services, which had been let to Hewlett-Packard (HP). However, DoITT’s recommendation and many of those provided in connection with prior audits, investigations and expert studies were not acted upon i
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