Hertz car rental sue Accenture for $32M after developing terrible website that isn't even responsive

UberTiger · 24 Apr 2019 at 20:35

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsuit/

Despite having missed the deadline by five months, with no completed elements and weighed down by buggy code, Accenture told Hertz it would cost an additional $10m – on top of the $32m it had already been paid – to finish the project. The lawsuit doesn't record what the reaction of Hertz executives was to that particular demand but we suspect it would have included post-watershed language.

LOL

Hades · 24 Apr 2019 at 21:02

Well their current website is carp. Can't be much worse?

And LOL

crinkleshoes · 24 Apr 2019 at 21:56

$42m for a website?

Omg...

I’ll happily do that for 20%

brendy · 24 Apr 2019 at 23:07

Having had some dealings with American tech companies in procurement, I'm really nor surprised.
Example, buying a couple of HP DL380 latest Gen servers, single silver cpu with 10 cores, 128gb ram, some adds, some 2.5 10k drives etc. Over here including some server 2019 std, SQL 2017 and 25 cals, the initial quote was $85k , ended up paying $28k, seems our previous IT guys never actually questioned costings etc and accounts just paid invoices. Scary at that level never mind what Accenture were charging then went back looking extra for.