Navy pauses work with CGI on troubled contract writing system | Federal News Network

The Navy is 27 months and more than $25 million into the development of a new electronic procurement system and the program is teetering on failure.

The service recently decided to “pause” its work with CGI, which the Navy hired in August 2019 under a 10-year, $222.9 million contract to build the system.

An email from Kevin Allen, the Navy’s program manager for Enterprise Systems and Services on June 11, which Federal News Network obtained, outlined just how problematic the electronic procurement system (ePS) program is after almost two years since the Navy made the contract award.

Allen wrote that problems ranged from vendor performance to implementing an unsatisfactory and inflexible product to significant cost and schedule increases.