The workers, consulted on Thursday, described the sole source contract as unusual, given the competition in an industry that includes ADP and SAP. They expressed surprise to see OPM's largely successful in-house HR platform on track to be replaced.
“OPM’s fragmented and outdated HR systems have reached a critical failure point, resulting in payroll errors, benefits disruptions, and a manual workload that is no longer sustainable,“ said the memo.
The contract, awarded on May 2, puts Workday in charge of HR-related tasks such as payroll, hiring, time and attendance tracking.
DOGE has led an unprecedented government overhaul in which some 260,000 civil servants have resigned, been fired or taken early retirement, according to a Reuters tally. DOGE claims to have saved U.S. taxpayers $160 billion to date, although its accounting has been riddled with errors and corrections.
Deprived of dozens of key support staff, those platforms may in fact be breaking down, two former employees with knowledge of the matter said, adding most of OPM's HR platforms have already been migrated to the cloud.
Usually, to win approval for a non-competitive bidding process, agencies need to demonstrate “unusual and compelling urgency” and show that the chosen vendor is uniquely up to the challenge.
OPM argued in the memo that a “full and open competition” would delay the project by six to nine months.
“We see it as a massive opportunity for Workday ... Spending time in DC, everyone is pulling for Workday. They want to move to our platform,“ Eschenbach said in a CNBC interview earlier this year.
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