NHS awards £500m everything-and-the-kitchen-sink framework to a long list of resellers

NHS Shared Business Services, the joint venture between the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care and French outsourcing firm Sopra Steria, has awarded a £500m framework to an army of resellers and technology firms. Released because of the “consistent and growing market for one-stop solutions”, the framework requests a …

[45RPM]

Salami slicing of the NHS goes on. Chop, chop, chop until nothing is left.

[Pascal Monett]

Sopra Steria ?

Another failure in the making, then.

Oh, but it's the NHS. Carry on, then.

[hoola]

A license to print money (for the resellers)

The trouble with all these frameworks is once they are in there is never any meaningful follow up audits to ensure that the selected resellers are delivering value. There are names on the list that have been on other frameworks that ended up with public sector bodies being fleeced. Any reseller that gets in just wants the largest slice of the cake that they can get, reliant on ill-informed management to assist them in there efforts to extract money.

The point of these frameworks was a good concept that has sadly been completely abused by both sides, laziness on the part or the purchasing organisations and greed on the part of the resellers.

[Howard Sway]

Complete list of £500m framework winners owners:

1. Some government minister

2. Some Tory MP

3. Some Tory MP's brother-in-law

4. Some special advisor's best friend

5. Big donor to Tory party

6. Some big foreign state owned company looking to hire non-exec directors on £5 million a year for three days work as long as they are Tory MPs.

7. An innovative British company formed by experienced tech experts with track record of value for money and reliable systems

8. That last one was a joke, obviously

[Dante Alighieri]

Re: 7 (of 9)

7) a business trading as as Commentards, an organ of cannabalistic origin since it will bite it's own hand

9) subcontractors of subcontractors down to the Ninth Circle - but I would say that, wouldn't I

[tonyyaman]

Re: Complete list of £500m framework winners owners:

plus more chances of people info being passed around or sold

[Random Handle]

Voluntary NHS IT Jobs

On an interesting related note - checkout the ad for this role (Lead Data Warehouse Developer) at a Manchester NHS Trust.

https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/search-jobs-in-manchester,-lancashire,-united-kingdom/-nhs-volunteer-lead-data-warehouse-developer-ce26944f1ba2818d27/

No salary, but such work is it's own reward - or possibly they have been burnt in the past and want to make sure you have a clue before parting with cash.