Let's try this again...

The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges in Washington is working on the development of a new information system to store and maintain all the critical data used to support schools state-wide.
This is not news.
In fact there is nothing new about it. The SBCTC has been trying to replace their archaic HP3000 servers for more than five years and have thrown millions of dollars at the problem.
The last failed attempt was known as the Rehosting Project. The Computer Information Systems, a department that no longer exists, contracted with Hewlett-Packard to rewrite the software needed to manage the information and "rehost" it on a newer, more web-based server.
HP failed to come through on the deal and in June the project was canceled. The SBCTC wasted $14 million on the whole deal and had virtually nothing to show for it.
This time, the bureaucracy that's running this circus is being a lot smarter about building the hardware and software that will replace the existing 30-year-old system. Rather than arbitrarily building a dysfunctional system, a consulting company, Collegiate Project Services, is surveying all 34 schools that are part of the system to figure out what would work best.
Wait. Hold on.
Does this mean that SBCTC paid $14 million on a contract without first doing a thorough assessment of the problem, then preceded to waste five years banging their head against the wall to solve it? Yes, yes it does!
So, as the title suggests, let's try this again.

Jon "M.F." Miller