Deloitte Consulting of New York came to the Council with an $18,576,555 contract to replace New Hampshire’s child welfare computer system. Wheeler seconded the motion to table it.
Executive Councilors John Stephen, R-Manchester, and David Wheeler, R-Milford, said they could not support a six-year agreement with Deloitte Consulting LLP of New York.
InDepthNH, April 9, 2025
He asked the question any taxpayer would ask first: can our own state employees do this instead of paying a national consulting firm for six years? Nobody at that table had a good answer.
This is a pattern with him, not a one-off. Wheeler has voted against Alvarez & Marsal of Washington, Guidehouse of Boston, Strategic Marketing of Indianapolis and Maximus, every one of them an out-of-state firm billing New Hampshire by the hour.
