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DRIVES — Vehicle Services Platform

DMV title, registration & driver-license system. Statewide. Timeline 2014–2018.

Money in FACT
Est. total cost
$93.3M
Result so far
Complete. What this stage means

Complete. The work on this project is complete.

The stages, in order

  1. Requested An agency asked. No money yet.
  2. Funded Money approved. Work still to start.
  3. Underway Work started. Money goes out.
  4. Complete Work complete. This project

Halted Work stopped before the end.

This stage is our reading of the sources at the foot of this page, last read 24 September 2026.

Timeline 2014–2018

Still open PENDING
Spend to date

Reported complete. Colorado does not publish what it spent. 1 of 1 contracts prints its own paid-to-date under Who is being paid.

FACT B Honesty Framework The label says how we know the figure. The grade rates the source record, not the project. The grade rates the source record, not the project.

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Latest public update

The $93.3M is stated as a total on page 4 of the Legislative Council Staff memorandum on major IT capital construction projects, written for the Joint Technology Committee in December 2022: the department “was appropriated a total of $93.3 million for the project, $41.0 million in FY 2014-15 and $52.3 million in FY 2015-16.” The same page records $18.8M returned to the Information Capital Account in FY 2019-20 after the project came in under budget. Delivered — but not free: the FY 2026-27 Long Bill carries $10,051,021/yr in DRIVES maintenance and support, and an estimated $13.2M/yr more from the DRIVES Vehicle Services Account funds DMV operations. Legacy IT systems have permanent operating tails.

Open questions for the state (1)
ANALYSIS
  • What recurring annual cost does ongoing DRIVES maintenance carry?

Total cost and spending
Total project cost$93.3M

Total cost & funding are drawn from the official record(s) listed below.

Delivered. Project reported complete, so final spend approximates the total cost. TOPS, the state’s spending ledger, has no project field, so it cannot show what was spent on one project.

Milestones (2)
  • Fully implemented — August 2018
  • Ongoing issue mitigation & enhancements

Who is being paid (1)
FACT
Funding sourceIT Capital Fund; cash funds (DMV fees).
Political giving
FAST Enterprises, LLCPlatform vendor & implementer (COTS, vendor-provided, state-hosted)$93.3M programALegislative Council Staff — Major IT ProjectsSearch TRACER
Where this comes from: award announcements and project records from CDOT, FHWA, agencies and the legislature’s nonpartisan staff — each Record link opens the source. Paid-to-date shows only published figures (green = verified); everything else stays PENDING, because the state does not publish payments project by project. Political giving links open TRACER, the Secretary of State’s official campaign-finance database, where contribution records are searchable by name — contributions are legal and public, and a search link implies no wrongdoing by anyone.

Sources and receipts (2)

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