Govt FU again

[stackpole]

When will they ever learn? Pay double just to get an Accenture android instead of getting a decent contractor via e.g. D.Agent, purveyor of BOS to HMG?

HMG see this as a way of having a single accountable body (the consultancy), rather than a disparate collection of freelancers.

With the latter, HMG would have to manage projects themselves, and if you thought that Accenture, EDS and the rest couldn't manage a p1ss up in a brewery...

[Joe Black]

We have an in at the NHS , apparently they are paying £800 per day for fairly run of the mill contractors (in the £400-£500 bracket) with agencies trousering 40% margins. We were asked is this normal? it is no wonder that the NHs is in crisis there is no financial discipline.

DA, you can't be serious £800 p/d......on some Gov't projects you wouldn't get change from a £1k note. Senior people of course wouldn't get out of their chalet in Switzerland for less than £1500...

Perhaps you're talking about staff from EDS/Accenture's Bangalore offices?