RSL - how's that pronounced?
Just wondering how one should pronounce RSL, that's all...
The Home Office has agreed to hand over £150m to defence company Raytheon over the dispute relating to the cancellation of the £750m e-Borders contract. The money is on top of legal costs of £35m, which El Reg exclusively revealed has so far been spent in extracting itself from the contract. In 2007, the Home Office …
"Yep, there is the hand of the Civil Service in this."
Certainly is. But the idea that Raytheon continue to be an A list supplier is a lesson for all other suppliers: Fail with impunity. That's not to let the wankers off the hook over at the Home Office who clearly mismanaged writing the specification, evaluating the tender, accepting the offer, and then overseeing failure.
But if they'd announced a five year ban on new work for Raytheon, then they'd be sending a lesson to suppliers: Don't fuck up yourself, don't accept contracts we've pre-fucked up.
The first rule of the blacklist for crap suppliers...
... is that you don't talk about the blacklist for crap suppliers, lest their lawyers get wind of it.
"Of course you're a valued supplier, its just that someone else provided a better bid on this contract... and this one.... and this one.... and every contract we get a whiff you're involved in for the next 10 years...
"So why are we paying these buggers anything?"
Because it's the cheapest way of making them go away, otherwise they keep the case going through the courts for the duration of the next few parliaments.
We could have bought 150 modern, mature and powerful Tomahawk Cruise missiles for that.