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* Buying Solutions plans £600m managed services deal

John Chadwick

That's a well though through requirement. 

Posted Monday 15th June 2009 19:33 GMT

One assumes they are looking to turn all of this into a commodity service, but if you think about who can actually do it all, it's even more frightening.

Can wee look forward to a lot of smaller companies and niche players being forced out of business.

This certainly raises the entry costs into the government market, at the expense of smaller companies. In fact it might well force out some very well known names. Design, Build, Operate is where the money is. If you take away most of the operate, expect application build costs to go through the roof.

John Smith 19

Another year, another govt framework agreement 

Posted Tuesday 16th June 2009 14:48 GMT

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So how well did the others work out?

Seems like the Civil Service merry go round has cycled again and another bunch of suckers has fallen for this BS.

This stuff *always* looks good on paper. Senior civil servants (and the large IT service outfits that can support them) have peopel whose job it is to do so.

I expect several references to synergy and shared resouces.

Good managmeent learns from its mistakes.

Anyone remeber the National Framework for NHS IT?

Anonymous Coward

Why do they even bother.... 

Posted Tuesday 16th June 2009 14:48 GMT

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They go through all of this only for EDS (sorry I mean HP) to get the contract. As an incumbant provider they are so tied into the different departments, it would be difficult to move away without major disruption.

I remember when our servers moved to another provider, we had nothing but problems for weeks afterwards trying to access our systems.

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