The Court of Audit criticizes serious management failures at Dataport AöR in its current annual report. The focus is on the Phoenix project, in which the public IT service provider is said to have made questionable decisions. Dataport operates IT services for six federal states – Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony. The criticism could affect the IT supply of these states, but the report does not yet provide details on concrete consequences.