Fancy £200m? Tell HMRC you'll help them sort their IT out HMRC has put £200m up for grabs by one lucky desktop services supplier as the government body attempts a major – and potentially risky – overhaul of its IT. The taxman is looking for end user devices, application performance monitoring and virtual desktop services. The contract will include overseeing mobile devices, such as …
As with the NHS upgrade for 6 billion, I have mixed feelings.
1. This will be a huge waste of cash and no-one will get told off when it doesn't work.
2. Yay, dust off that CV, its party time! (And I wont get told off when it doesn't work).
A trough appears very different if you get to munch from it...
Curious. Who amongst them cryin' ... "risky" is able to understand the risk?
If they'd gone with "one throat to choke" and "greater performance penalties" and better defined "KPIs" then I'd leave them with Fujitsu but they arguably cocked that up. Why not try something new ... and stop bleatin' about risk.
Popcorn, action.
Considering the almost uniform track record of massively-overbudget train-wrecks; I would have thought that almost anything was less risky. Even if you give the contract to a bunch of Syrian refugees bobbing about in mid-Med; who will have to manage everything over GPRS before their batteries run out, it's probably not going to be more of a fuck-up than usual; and will be a damn sight cheaper.
"end user devices, application packaging and deployment, IMACD ['Install, Move, Add, Change and Decommission'], administrative infrastructure, remote access, application performance monitoring and virtual desktops, but also includes some requirements bespoke to HMRC," for the entire HMRC end user platform ? Given that large swathes of UK public bodies still have XP , win7 etc .. the quoted spec seems like a massive money pit for the "lucky" winner, especially given the 12 to 84 month decision making timeline that will likely exist.
My guess is either HCL or Wipro will "win" and run it into the ground inside 3 years
Government contract to a British company? Not a hope in hell.
No, it will go to one of the huge French or German consultancies who will take the money spend a fraction of it on an Indian engineer, fail to deliver and then charge the tax payer a fortune for amending the contract to something that might work.
When **they** choose they will decide that no sme in the UK has the 'experience' of doing this... even though the ultimate winner will be employing Indian graduates with no experience of anything.
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