Ministry of Justice writes off £56m on duplicate IT project

[Flashman]

Meh £56 million is small change. Barely enough to put someone on trial for phone hacking in todays money.

Really the waste needs to be at least £500 million before the papers can start beating people up over it.

[DaveB]

And just to round it off:

Canned Project - Run by Steria
New Project - Run by a consortium headed by....... Steria.

Someone is in line for a decent bonus this year.

[Sysman]

I am sure all these cold calls I get are from people in the UK. They may have Indian voices but they have names like Lucy or George so they must be British.

I liked the news article from several years ago which reported that Indians were watching East Enders so they could chat about it when doing sales pitches.

Just the mention of that programme would have had me slamming down the phone.

[tomtomagain]

And just to round it off:

Canned Project - Run by Steria
New Project - Run by a consortium headed by....... Steria.

Someone is in line for a decent bonus this year.

Well that probably tells you one thing ..... that internally they recognise that Steria was not the root-cause of the failure.

[speling bee]

Meh £56 million is small change. Barely enough to put someone on trial for phone hacking in todays money.

Really the waste needs to be at least £500 million before the papers can start beating people up over it.

+1. The real news is that they've saved £444 million.

[DaveB]

Well that probably tells you one thing ..... that internally they recognise that Steria was not the root-cause of the failure.

Not really. It means Steria managed to sell UK Gov the same thing twice, get paid for the first one and then drop it without actually having to deliver anything before getting paid for the second. I'd call that a win if I was in their shoes.

[BrilloPad]

I am shocked. Government prints money and does not give it to a bank. Even worse, it gives it to ordinary working folks.

[vetran]

Well that probably tells you one thing ..... that internally they recognise that Steria was not the root-cause of the failure.

Normally its 'Big Outsourcer' has the best bribe customer contact days.