Bobs cut of the rate

[portseven]

Seeing more use of UK Contractors by bobco's

What is supprising is the cut they take, mate of mine got offered a gig as a lead app architect through bobco at a rate of 450 day, after a bit of digging bob is charging the client 800 day for them!

Not sure what I am more supprised at the cut or the rate bob is charging

[kingcook]

What is supprising is the cut they take, mate of mine got offered a gig as a lead app architect through bobco at a rate of 450 day, after a bit of digging bob is charging the client 800 day for them!

And it's all in the name of saving money

[mos]

Seeing more use of UK Contractors by bobco's

What is supprising is the cut they take, mate of mine got offered a gig as a lead app architect through bobco at a rate of 450 day, after a bit of digging bob is charging the client 800 day for them!

Not sure what I am more supprised at the cut or the rate bob is charging

not surprised, worked on the Bobco project with one lead BA, junior BA and two Data Analysts. They charged £4,000 per day all in. The problem was that they committed to achieving 6 months worth of work in 7 weeks. Data analysts, who happened to be from Eastern Europe, were advised to achieve deadline "at any cost" in addition to cutting corners / picking low hanging fruit policy.

[Robinho]

Amuzingly an agent was going to put me forward for a role today. Problem is he sent the email to me and not the client.

18% margin.

[kingcook]

Amuzingly an agent was going to put me forward for a role today. Problem is he sent the email to me and not the client.

18% margin.

[TheFaQQer]

Not sure what I am more supprised at the cut or the rate bob is charging

Why are either surprising? Oracle used to charge me out at £1500 a day when I was there eight years ago. They charge someone straight out of university out at £695 on the last price list that I saw, so why is it surprising that a consultancy charges a lot more than a contractor

[bobspud]

Why are either surprising? Oracle used to charge me out at £1500 a day when I was there eight years ago. They charge someone straight out of university out at £695 on the last price list that I saw, so why is it surprising that a consultancy charges a lot more than a contractor

WHS

Any big consultancy is going to make money on you.

However I have a strategy that ensures I end up mostly cost neutral. I bill every hour I work. I never give a minute of my time and I generally end up getting most of the money that the consultancy charges the end client. However I get the job done and the clients love me, so Im on my third large project for my current client co despite working out much more than the cost of my day rate. It's all about having the balls to tell your client to rethink their value proposition when they ask you to record extra time that they can bill to the customer without paying you. The worst I had was a few years back when the PM was adamant that I wasn't getting more that my day rate. The following month he got a timesheet that was full of flat 37 hour weeks. He came up and said but you worked much more than that and I said You dont pay me for it so I don't record it and that wasn't changing without the additional hours on top... I billed 32 days the following month (20 day month) and they had their full time sheet in return His project went in on time and I worked for them for over a year on different stuff.