All central government IT contracts worth more than £5m are to be subject to approval by the Treasury and the Cabinet Office. The move is intended to provide long term measures and replace the interim changes introduced when the coalition government came to power. A spokeswoman for the Cabinet Office told GGC that, whereas …

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Wednesday 2nd March 2011 16:11 GMT dave 46

Won't work

They'll just split a big project into 5 little projects, all under the 5m threshold.

I can't see any of the civil service mandarins being happy having to justify their spending, or able to for that matter.

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1. Thursday 3rd March 2011 10:49 GMT Mitch Kent
  
  That maybe true...
  
  .. But *hopefully* 5 smaller projects are easier to manage than one Massive project.
  
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Wednesday 2nd March 2011 17:52 GMT Anonymous Coward

@ dave 46

Agreed.

UK civil servants know how to cream the system.

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Thursday 3rd March 2011 09:15 GMT Anonymous Coward

Tender

I will do the work for £4,999,999.99p, that should do it! Honest

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Thursday 3rd March 2011 09:15 GMT despairing citizen

new method of cost control?

should be read as all £5m projects will now cost £6m and take double the time to deliver due to additional documentation and review panels needed to approve and monitor projects.

overall costs will also go up,due to the number of projects that fail or are seriously defcient by the time the go live, as the goal posts will have moved whilst the project was sat around waiting for the manadarins to approve it.

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