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Legislative auditors and KDHE report delays and design issues in Clarus childcare replacement; go‑live pushed to October 2025
Summary
KDHE and Legislative Post Audit reported design errors, staffing changes at the vendor and schedule slippage for the Clarus childcare licensing replacement. Cost is tracking close to the $5 million ARPA allocation and the go‑live date was moved from June to October 2025.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment officials and Legislative Post Audit (LPA) staff told the Joint Committee on Information Technology that the Clarus childcare replacement project is in alert status because of milestone slippage tied to vendor staffing, document errors and unanticipated design work.
KDHE Chief Information Officer Bob Doan said the contract for a vendor‑hosted software‑as‑a‑service replacement was signed in January 2024 and work began in April 2024. The original go‑live date was June 2025; KDHE revised the schedule to October 2025 after…
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