Deloitte is the biggest loser in DOGE's consulting crackdown
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- The Trump administration is slashing federal spending on consultants.
- Business Insider crunched the DOGE receipts to calculate how many contracts have been cut.
- Deloitte has had at least 127 contracts cut or modified — more than twice as many as any of nine other firms.
Ten major firms are under the spotlight as the Trump administration continues its consulting crackdown — but one is taking the most heat.
Deloitte has had at least 127 of its government contracts cut or modified since January, more than double the total for any of the other consultancies on the Trump administration's list, a Business Insider analysis of data on DOGE's website found.
The Big Four firm is one of 10 of the federal government's highest-paid consultancies that have come under scrutiny amid the administration's push to cut waste and improve efficiency. The list includes Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, and General Dynamics.
According to DOGE, the cuts to Deloitte contracts will save taxpayers about $371.8 million.
They include $51.4 million in savings from a contract providing IT services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and $1.1 million in savings from a DEIA training contract that has been running since 2020.
Deloitte US contracts with federal agencies were worth $3.3 billion a year, or almost 10% of its most recent annual revenues, it said in a recent earnings report.
Booz Allen Hamilton, which generates almost all of its $11 billion in annual revenue from the public sector, is the second hardest-hit firm, with 61 contracts cut, according to BI's analysis.
Accenture has had at least 30 contracts cut, saving $240.2 million, per DOGE's data.
In an annual earnings call last month, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said that DOGE's cost-cutting efforts had already hit the firm's revenues, and staff have told BI they're worried about layoffs.
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The General Services Administration (GSA), the government's largest procurement arm, is leading the effort to reevaluate federal consulting spend.
The agency, which operates separately from DOGE, said that consulting contracts with the 10 firms were set to generate more than $65 billion in fees in 2025 and future years.
In March, the GSA asked the consultancies to submit a scorecard containing a detailed breakdown of their pricing and suggestions for where they could reduce costs or cut waste.
It told the firms to identify which contracts were "mission critical" and to use simple terms to do it: "A 15-year-old should be able to understand what service you provide and why it is important."
Responses were due by Monday this week.
A source at the agency told BI that the GSA and federal bodies were now reviewing the scorecards and would decide on further cuts. The goal was to cut waste and move toward a more outcome-based approach instead of open-ended contracts, they said.
CEOs and senior executives at the consultancies appeared to be aligned with the administration's priorities, the source added.
Here's the list of contracts cut and savings made, according to the DOGE website:
- Deloitte: 127 contracts, $371.8 million
- Booz Allen Hamilton: 61 contracts, $207.1 million
- Guidehouse: 49 contracts, $128.7 million
- Accenture: 30 contracts, $240.2 million
- General Dynamics: 16 contracts, $202.7 million
- IBM: 10 contracts, $34.3 million
- Leidos: 7 contracts, + $78.5 million
- CGI Federal: 7 contracts, $465,000
- Science Applications International Corp: 5 contracts, $7.5 million
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