'Direct from the software vendor': UK.gov goes window-shopping for standard ERP in £400m spree

UK government procurement unit Crown Commercial Service is sizing up the market for new back-office systems for central government in deals that could be worth up to £400m. The expected resulting framework agreement – for software including ERP, human capital management (HCM), procurement and supply chain, information …

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not sure it's a bad idea ...

... my company is just the tech world's most expensive dating agency - we sell people Oracle, SAP, VMWare etc. and we add v̶a̶l̶u̶e̶ cost, risk and delay

[Anonymous Coward]

Unintended Consequences?

So........we're going to have GCHQ operating in "the cloud". Security? Privacy? Hackers FREELY able to find out what's going on in Cheltenham?

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I love it!! Bring it on!! And only millions of pounds of taxpayers money....a bargain, surely!

[Anonymous Coward]

There's another £400M of tax payers money

Down the pan...

[Ian Johnston]

Prediction: It will go over budget by a factor of at least two and be cancelled when it still hasn't worked, five years late.

[David Lewis 2]

Re: Prediction ...

@Ian, I find you optimism deeply disturbing.

[logicalextreme]

Human Capital Management?

If that's intended to be a less dehumanising term to replace "Human Resources", I feel like perhaps it's failed in that endeavour.

[EnviableOne]

who gets this one

Crapita, Sopra, Interserv, DXC, G4S, .......

answers on a postcard,

icon cause someone's going to rip them off