Public sector cutbacks: Which IT contracts are at risk?

[cojak]

Interesting article this, and bound to bring the sweats to a few people's brows.

I do fear for my ex-colleagues within the NPfIT programmes.

Although as most of those were dumped when Tech Mahindra was wheeled in, I'm not too broken-hearted...

[SuperZ]

Interesting article this, and bound to bring the sweats to a few people's brows.

I do fear for my ex-colleagues within the NPfIT programmes.

Although as most of those were dumped when Tech Mahindra was wheeled in, I'm not too broken-hearted...

I've worked on one of those projects. GOod project, but pity they took it in a certain direction as it'll cost more to implement......typical of HMG . Imagine you have a phase of the project that has been quite cost effective and you have all the resources and skills you need moving forward......then next phase goes somewhere else completely different, with no prior knowledge of the system.

They should look at making the relevant civil service orgs more efficient rather than abandoning programmes that have already had a great deal of investment.
Strangely one of the more useless places (IMO and not mentioned in that article) seem to be overflowing with money to spend, and I doubt these cutbacks will even affect them either.

[ratewhore]

ID cards are going to go, assuming a Tory win (which clearly is NOT a given).

On the other hand, there was talk from the present bunch of more shared services (again) and more citizen services online (again).

So it might be a case of shuffling around...

[cojak]

I've worked on one of those projects. GOod project, but pity they took it in a certain direction as it'll cost more to implement......typical of HMG . Imagine you have a phase of the project that has been quite cost effective and you have all the resources and skills you need moving forward......then next phase goes somewhere else completely different, with no prior knowledge of the system.

They should look at making the relevant civil service orgs more efficient rather than abandoning programmes that have already had a great deal of investment.
Strangely one of the more useless places (IMO and not mentioned in that article) seem to be overflowing with money to spend, and I doubt these cutbacks will even affect them either.

Oh yes - there are definitely good ones that could be looked at very closely, not mentioned in the article.

The last one I was at the main body itself was excellent but the IT division was a pile of tulip run by a bunch of muppets...

[threaded]

They'll just fire the expensive programmers and keep on the management and support staff.

Well, someone has to make the tea, and someone has to drink it.

[cojak]

They'll just fire the expensive programmers and keep on the management and support staff.

Well, someone has to make the tea, and someone has to drink it.

Exactly.

[Churchill]

Mine's at risk but not mentioned in the article. That said it's only £1Bn over 10 years.

[AtW]

Once unnecessary legislation is removed, ie: ID cards, or tax credits tulip (just tax less people ffs), then the need (for the State) in many of such projects will disappear.

[Churchill]

Once unnecessary legislation is removed, ie: ID cards, or tax credits tulip (just tax less people ffs), then the need (for the State) in many of such projects will disappear.

What about those projects that are needed?

[AtW]

What about those projects that are needed?

Simplification of legislation should help, but generally speaking if I was in charge I'd cancel pretty much all IT projects to be sure: the State can't afford this stuff, unless it totally saves loads of money and can be implemented in 6-9-12 months it shouldn't go ahead.

I'd also change model how such contracts are awarded - this is IT ffs, a small bunch of clever people working in a team should achieve results, just by getting thousands of different people involved project is becoming way too complex.

Such projects should be allocated to local firms - they should know that if they succeed then they will be on the real money, but if they fail then they are ***** and will never get to bid for Govt projects.