If the aim is to waste as much of other peoples' money in as short a time as possible, the government has (as always) made the right choice.

How on earth can it cost £20m to run a website for a year? Even if I think of the most complicated and highly resilient solution, I'd struggle to spend more than 5m to set up the hardware and software.

What are we saying here - £50m of content ? How on earth can that be viable?

I have designed and implemented highly resilient load balanced infrastructure for high street banks and can't for the life of me understand how $50m over 3 years is good value !!

If anyone wants to vote for me as supreme overlord of the UK, my first act will be to ban Capita from consideration for government projects.

[1] - ba-thed on your no-nonthenthe approach I mutht warn you that your political objectiveth are completely out of whack with current Britithh political ideology.

[2] - ba-thed on [1]... you get my vote

[3] - ba-thed on [2]... thhould I give up my day job (grave robbing) and hobbieth (cruel and unuthual experimentth on ute little puppieth) to make mythelf available ath your truthted (yet thurprithingly deformed) thidekick ?

Taking bets now on how long in nano-seconds it'll take the new website to crash, that is if it ever amkes it to the launch date!

What recession?

One shudders to think what Capita would charge for a full SAP deployment at NHS. Extrapolating the above number, it could perhaps consume the entire operating budget of uk.gov.