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HRWorks — Statewide HR Information System (terminated)

State payroll & HR modernization (relaunched after 2020 termination). Statewide. Timeline 2015–2020 · terminated.

Money in FACT
Est. total cost
$41.6M
Result so far
Halted. What this stage means

Halted. The work on this project stopped before the end. Work can stop at any step.

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.

Halted Work stopped before the end. This project

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

Timeline 2015–2020 · terminated

Still open PENDING
Spend to date

Colorado does not publish what it has spent on this project.

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

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 (2)
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?

Total cost and spending
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. TOPS, the state’s spending ledger, has no project field, so it cannot show what was spent on one project.

Milestones (4)
  • Appropriations FY 2014-15 → FY 2019-20 — $41.6M
  • Time-and-leave awards (Kronos, then CGI)
  • Project terminated amid COVID-era budget cuts — 2020
  • Successor: DPA Payroll Modernization (≈ $46.2M, separate program)

Who is being paid (2)
FACT
Funding sourceIT Capital Fund. Original effort terminated 2020; re-scoped since.
Political giving
KronosInitial time-and-leave award — later replaced—PENDING Not published for this contract.ALegislative Council Staff — Major IT ProjectsSearch TRACER
CGITime-and-leave tracking solution (replacement award)—PENDING Not published for this contract.ALegislative 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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HRWorks — Statewide HR Information System (terminated)

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