Cabinet Office dangles £15m for help ditching its Single Operating Platform for cloud-based ERP system

The Cabinet Office is offering a £15m contract for a consultancy to help it shift central government enterprise applications to an as software-as-a-service delivery model, part of an ambitious refresh programme. The tender notice, published earlier this week, is the first sign the British government is forging ahead with its …

[Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse]

No doubt...

No doubt it'll be the standard cheapest snouts at the trough offshoring all the work rather than keeping it based in the UK.

[Anonymous Coward]

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/cabinet_office_failing_to_coordinate_ukgovs_infosec_practices_says_national_audit_office/

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https://www.softwareadvisoryservice.com/en/blog/biggest-uk-government-project-failures/

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What could possibly go wrong?

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Oh....and how many ministers or civil servants have owned up and resigned over these failures? Approximately NONE!

[Steve Davies 3]

This won't...

- End well

- cost less than 20 times the original budget

- be delivered any time before 2035

- be recognisable (functionality wise) from what was originally scoped

It will :-

- be dogs breakfast of bodges and horribly cobbled togerher dog shite set of applications.

- not what was asked for in any shape or form

- shite of the highest order.

[RM Myers]

Re: This won't...

Come on Steve, don't sugarcoat it. Tell us how you really feel.

[Daniel von Asmuth]

There'll be gray clouds over the white cliffs of Dover

If that Single Operating Platform is as great as it sounds, perhaps Britain can sell it to our government.

[EnviableOne]

Why not do it in House

oh yeah they cant get the skills as they would all be IR35 roles....