[LRUG] This can't be right...

[Daniel Lucraft]

Right and right.

TO be fair, even the Ministry choked on £950m. The original costing was 
'only' £235m and they've halted it after spending 'only' £155m.

Even so though, I can't think where the money is going. I can't even 
think where they SAY the money is going.

Dan

Chris Parsons wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2007, at 09:54, Daniel Lucraft wrote:
> 
>> Here's the deal. The Ministry of Justice orders an application from  
>> EDS
>> to track prisoner's parole status nationally. Requirements:
>> (1) 300,000 prisoners to track.
>> (2) 70,000 users total, spread around the country.
>>
>> EDS bill?   £945m.
>>
>> WTF? Anyone have any comments on this? How is that possible?
> 
> I know, it's absolutely insane. You could build something like this  
> for 10,000th of the price. It's almost worth getting ISO9001  
> certified so that you can start getting some of these contracts.
> 
> When (if) government clues onto how much cheaper good software can  
> be, however, I'm not sure the ramifications are that good ("Hey, look  
> how affordable bureaucracy just got! Let's build 1000 extra features  
> in to *really* keep track of everyone!")
> 
> Chris
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