The same Usual Suspects
Considering the records of some of these companies with government contracts you'd think they'd be off the short list.
Ah well at least we know that with them in charge buggering the system up, our freedom is at least safe!
Identity and Passport Service announces ID supplier shortlist
Eight companies have got through the first stage of the Identity Card Scheme procurement process. Accenture, BAE Systems, CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, Steria and Thales have been given the go ahead to enter a competitive dialogue with the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) for places on the National Identity Scheme Strategic …
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Monday 22nd October 2007 11:29 GMT David Harper
Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off
That's the best news about the national ID system that I've heard in a long time.
Not only is the government shortlisting a bunch of companies which have spectacularly screwed up previous major IT projects, but it looks like the work will be split between several of them, which pretty much dooms the entire thing to utter and complete failure.
The only down side is that the companies involved will end up with billions of pounds of OUR tax money before the project is written off as a disaster.
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Monday 22nd October 2007 11:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Few, that's a relief
I thought they were serious about delivering it. Now that the short list has been narrowed down to Koko, Lulubell, Pongo, Spanky and Gabo with a track record of floppy shoes, red noses, and miniature cars with eccentric wheels, it's clear this is just a little light entertainment to cheer us up!
Will they shoot the home secretary out of a canon?
Can you name one government project, that that lot have ever delivered to original budget and original schedule? Just one?
Ahh, but we laugh at their antics, that's the important thing. 900 million for a prisoner tracking system, haha, 2.3 billion to merge 3 army databases, lol, what characters! The laughter is worth the billions in wasted IT budgets.
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Monday 22nd October 2007 14:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Unprofessional review
Accenture : Bid with a few good staff, replace with cheap graduates, swamp project. Project overrun but they are so good at the commercials it'll end up costing the taxpayer billions.
BAE Systems : Project overrun. Should be good on security. Will they bribe their way onto the shortlist ?
CSC : Company going down the pan, staff leaving in droves, low morale. Just what's needed...
EDS : How, for F**ks sake, did they make the shortlist with their track record? Project overrun but they are so good at the commercials it'll end up costing the taxpayer billions
Fujitsu : Quality. However, not good at influencing government, won't make the shortlist.
IBM : SOA everyhere. Technology purity will kill the project. Project overrun but they are so good at the commercials it'll end up costing the taxpayer billions
Steria : Won't get past the shortlist, how did they make it through so far ?
Thales : They provide much of the IT/Comms for Network Rail. 'nough said ?
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Monday 22nd October 2007 15:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re:EDS - Why?
I was of the opinion that giving the contract to EDS would a good thing because it would mean that ID cards would never see the light of day
Then I realised that they will make like they did with the CSA and Tax Credits software. Roll it out even though its complete shite and unfit for purpose.
You may well find plod beating in your door down in the middle of the night because EDS' shitty software cross-referenced your DNA with a terrorist crime scene.
Nex thing you know, MI5 will have renditioned you to some 3rd world shithole so they can apply electrodes to your gonads until you confess.
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