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DPA · Technology
HRWorks — Statewide HR Information System (terminated)
State payroll & HR modernization (relaunched after 2020 termination). Timeline 2015–2020 · terminated.
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Est. total cost
$41.6M
Delivery stage
✕ Halted
Paid so far, to whom PENDING
No payment published yet.
2 vendor rows below; per-vendor payments are pending TOPS ingestion.
Your take on this project
Latest public update
Terminated in 2020. The legislature's JTC staff analysis is blunt: $41.6M was appropriated and 'no new systems were implemented with the funding.' A separate ≈ $46.2M Payroll Modernization program was later launched to replace the state's 40-year-old payroll system.
Open questions for the state ANALYSIS
- What did taxpayers receive for the $41.6M appropriated before termination?
- Does the successor Payroll Modernization program reuse any HRWorks work products or contracts?
Fiscal position
Total project cost$41.6M
Total cost & funding are drawn from the official record(s) listed below.
Spend-to-date: not published. Colorado does not publish what it has spent on this project, so this field is left blank rather than estimated. It will fill from TOPS/CORE vendor expenditure data as payments are matched to projects.
Milestones
- Appropriations FY 2014-15 → FY 2019-20 — $41.6M
- Time-and-leave awards — two successive vendors
- Project terminated amid COVID-era budget cuts — 2020
- Successor: DPA Payroll Modernization (≈ $46.2M, separate program)
Who is being paid FACT
Funding sourceIT Capital Fund. Original effort terminated 2020; re-scoped since.
| Vendor | Contract / value | Paid to date | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITHHELDInitial time-and-leave award — later replaced | — | PENDING | A |
| WITHHELDTime-and-leave tracking solution (replacement award) | — | PENDING | A |
The money is published; the names are held. Each row below carries the contract value, what has been paid to date so far as it is published, and our confidence grade — the same figures as always, from the same official records. What is withheld is the vendor's name, the record link that names it, and the campaign-finance search that sat beside it. That is a deliberate decision taken pending legal review, not a figure we could not find: a blank cell would have said the opposite. What WITHHELD means
Source records
- ALegislature — Major IT Projects Overviewread 24 September 2026
- AJTC staff analysis — DPA Payroll Modernization (FY 2022-23)read 24 September 2026