>> I was thinking specifically about those computer "programmes" where money seems to have been spent like water in the NHS and in some cases the whole thing has been abandoned...
>> I know that it happens in Private industry as well, but not to the same
>> extent, it seems that some contractors see Gov-run business as a gravy train to be
>> milked as much as possible... bit of mixed metaphors, but you know what I mean...
Yes I think it does happen more often like you say, I don't know much about IT contracts, but I know one contractor how said he always charges 50-100% more on daily rate because it's the such a pain working with any public sector on IT.
>>
>> Someone has to get a grip on things... If that means buying "off the shelf"
>> stuff rather than developing new then so be it... After all do we really need
>> stuff that is different to what the French, German, US, etc. are using?
Quite a difficult one that, it can help us with the exporting things if we make them. The more, typhoons for example, we export the cheaper ours become to maintain in the future. There's also the political angle to think of 'Gov exports jobs to europe!' and the such like headlines.
|