UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B

The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a £958.7 million ($1.2 billion) search for a supplier to develop business processes for new ERP and HR systems to bring together four central government departments. This month, the DWP launched the procurement of the Synergy Business Process Services (BPS), which will …

[Andy 73]

That works out at...

£6,750 per employee.

[m4r35n357]

Re: That works out at...

and it still won't work.

[elsergiovolador]

Re: That works out at...

as long as new yacht is being built and private island is getting purchased, it works.

[Roland6]

Re: That works out at...

But it will be well spent on a really good yacht…

[Martin M]

Re: That works out at...

If you believe https://www.erpfocus.com/erp-implementation-costs.html it's over the odds (as expected for anything involving gov procurement), but only by about 20%. If the figures in the article include license/SaaS subs then it'll be less.

Although will no doubt run over.

[elsergiovolador]

Choo choo!

The gravy train has arrived, usual suspects prepare to board!

[A Non e-mouse]

I predict a huge fat fee paid to consultants and a late, over budget and barely functioning system with oodles of bugs.

[elsergiovolador]

No no, huge fat fee to be paid for getting consultants which supplier takes a large chunk of, but "consultants" are actually low tier employees or umbrella "contractors".

This money is not "trickling down".

[CowHorseFrog]

I never could understand why agencies exist because they certainly dont provide any guarantees that their product will actually function and yet governmens still waste crazy amounts in hiring them.

[ColinPa]

Do they know what they want?

Someone in this sort of business said unless you know what they want, it is hard to cost it. She was involved in merging two differently looking systems from two departments, and both departments assumed their GUI would be the one in the new system.

When she asked about "the right to be forgotten" and how long to keep data for, people gave her a blank look. She said her company spent a lot of time with them helping them understand what they wanted, and then once they had a better idea of what they wanted, they went with a "cheaper solution" and the costs overran.

[cantankerous swineherd]

so they haven't run out of money.

[IGotOut]

Well....

...it went so well for Birmingham, so I can't see anything going wrong.

I'm sure it will be on time and on budget as always.