Calif. Consortium Gives Accenture $453 Million Deal

Accenture has won a 13-year, $453 million contract to provide an automated and integrated human services information system to a consortium of California counties, the company announced Aug. 3.

Accenture is the prime contractor on a team that will design, build, deploy and operate the system, dubbed C-IV, for San Bernadino, Riverside, Stanislaus and Merced counties.

The contracting team includes Electronic Data Systems Corp., Plano, Texas; Avanade Inc., Seattle; Dell Computer Corp., Round Rock, Texas; and BEA Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif. All of California's counties belong to one of four consortiums authorized by state law to comply with federal welfare reform mandates.

The system will support the eligibility determination for assistance programs for more than 350,000 families living in the four-county area.

The assistance programs covered by the contract are California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, food stamps, Medicaid, foster care and refugee assistance programs.

In addition, 6,000 country employees will use the system to manage and administer service delivery to needy families and families seeking employment services, such as job training and placement programs.

The system will allow the public to access directories of child care, training and supportive service providers, provide interactive voice response capabilities for easier access to individual case information and include document imaging to reduce the large volume of paper forms used.

Accenture Ltd., with government headquarters located in Reston, Va., has more than 75,000 employees worldwide and had revenue of $9.75 billion in fiscal 2000.