Another government IT project failure
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Another government IT project failure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23963867
Usual names in the frame as well, Accenture and Capgemini + IBM and HP
This is an interesting article:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2...iversal-Credit
Reading between the lines, the big hitters were, as per usual, happy to take the money knowing full well they already had one arm tied behind their back and were destined to fail.
Usual names in the frame as well, Accenture and Capgemini + IBM and HP
This is an interesting article:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2...iversal-Credit
Reading between the lines, the big hitters were, as per usual, happy to take the money knowing full well they already had one arm tied behind their back and were destined to fail.
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What do you honestly expect ?
Too much money available to them and utterly uncountable for any of it, and far too many people wanting to make money on the side for supping kit that's unsuitable. Any non commercial software will be written by someone that has no concept of how the project works and how the people using it wants its to work.
I used to work for the government in IT, what a utter shambles and absolutely zero idea on buying equipment.
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Too much money available to them and utterly uncountable for any of it, and far too many people wanting to make money on the side for supping kit that's unsuitable. Any non commercial software will be written by someone that has no concept of how the project works and how the people using it wants its to work.
I used to work for the government in IT, what a utter shambles and absolutely zero idea on buying equipment.
Richard
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A national rollout of the new benefit has been delayed following IT glitches.
Mr Duncan Smith told the BBC: "This will be delivered within budget and within the timescale."
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So it hasnt failed....yet. The truth is that all large scale government IT will fail to some extent.
I think if anything the Universal Credit does demonstrate that lessons have been learnt and they have acted much more quickly than in the past to keep it on track.
1) There arent enough good skilled people on the government side to correctly spec, procure and monitor the delivery of very large scale (often specialist) IT. So at best they end up with contractors - who, even if they do bring the skills, will disappear the next time they have a budget restriction
2) The procurement for government is too slow and too costly. It ends up being tied down to the nth degree up front which leaves no flexibility when the requirements inevitably change/evolve. Government is a very poor customer. Private firms usually manage to evolve large deals in-life much more successfully as they're not so paranoid about having the procurement challenged and have far less approval bureaucracy.
And I've been on the supplier side of a large scale government IT contract deal that's just entering its 9th year for some time.
I think if anything the Universal Credit does demonstrate that lessons have been learnt and they have acted much more quickly than in the past to keep it on track.
1) There arent enough good skilled people on the government side to correctly spec, procure and monitor the delivery of very large scale (often specialist) IT. So at best they end up with contractors - who, even if they do bring the skills, will disappear the next time they have a budget restriction
2) The procurement for government is too slow and too costly. It ends up being tied down to the nth degree up front which leaves no flexibility when the requirements inevitably change/evolve. Government is a very poor customer. Private firms usually manage to evolve large deals in-life much more successfully as they're not so paranoid about having the procurement challenged and have far less approval bureaucracy.
And I've been on the supplier side of a large scale government IT contract deal that's just entering its 9th year for some time.
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There are a couple of websites that seem to work on a national scale being HMRC and DVLA.
Attempts at a decent NHS site have cost millions.
My mate was head of purchasing at the Home Office, a big spend. Wise old boy who didn't trust any big gov't IT project so he did his own for just his department and kept quiet about it.
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Attempts at a decent NHS site have cost millions.
My mate was head of purchasing at the Home Office, a big spend. Wise old boy who didn't trust any big gov't IT project so he did his own for just his department and kept quiet about it.
dl
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There are a couple of websites that seem to work on a national scale being HMRC and DVLA.
Attempts at a decent NHS site have cost millions.
My mate was head of purchasing at the Home Office, a big spend. Wise old boy who didn't trust any big gov't IT project so he did his own for just his department and kept quiet about it.
dl
Attempts at a decent NHS site have cost millions.
My mate was head of purchasing at the Home Office, a big spend. Wise old boy who didn't trust any big gov't IT project so he did his own for just his department and kept quiet about it.
dl
I put in for a road tax refund in May, with the disc running out at the end of June. I got the normal "thanks for letting us know that you've sold the vehicle" letter in May, and then in July, I got a letter from them saying I couldn't have a tax refund as they didn't know the reason for it. I returned the letter ticking the box saying I had sold the vehicle in May, and they've just written back to me saying I won't be refunded any monies, because they can't be back dated, and I only provided the information as to why I wanted a refund on the 18th August........
Mind you, I'm not sure that's an IT issue, more a bureaucracy one, but still one that makes you want to punch somebody.
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Just heard there is another £300m floating around on the Universal Credit scheme which no one is quite sure about.
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As I keep saying, we are very unlucky with the abilities and sense of responsibilities of our politicians these days.
Trouble is they never seem to be under any kind of personal threat when they make these major screw ups!
Les
Trouble is they never seem to be under any kind of personal threat when they make these major screw ups!
Les
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Once they get to a certain level, a major job perk seems to be raping the nation with no accountability.
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Yep, the EPR (Electronic Patient Record) fiasco cost the NHS 13 billion........... just spent the day writing on bits of paper LOL
"Dogged with problems" in 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ient-care.html
Now abandoned.
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Yep, the EPR (Electronic Patient Record) fiasco cost the NHS 13 billion........... just spent the day writing on bits of paper LOL
"Dogged with problems" in 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ient-care.html
Now abandoned.
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The same salary is taxed at 45% in France, 45% in Germany, 45% in Italy, 42% in Spain.
Corporation tax is dropping to 20% here, 33% in France, 30% in Germany, 30% in Italy, 30% in Spain.
When VAT was 17.5% it was the lowest in Europe (of the VAT charging countries), and now at 20% is only 1% above Germany and France and still lower than Italy and Spain.
Fuel in the UK is cheaper than Germany, Italy and France.
Capital gains tax is cheaper in the UK than the other big four countries.
UK VED / Road Tax is £275 for my Scooby, could be up to £500ish. In Spain it's E220, in Germany it's approximately E250 but can rise to E500 and the French have pretty expensive toll roads.
The French also have to pay council tax, buy TV licences, 5% stamp duty when buying homes, 19% VAT when building a new home, they pay social security.
Unless you want to compare the UK with countries like Albania, Serbia, Romania, or tiny tax havens like Monaco, then we really are taxed far less heavily than mainland Europe.
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