UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B The UK government has launched a competition for cloud services worth up to £14 billion over four years – nearly triple the £4.8 billion over 18 months announced in an earlier market engagement. The Crown Commercial Service (CCS), a branch of the Cabinet Office, opened the G-Cloud 15 tender last week to provide cloud …
Oh, isn't that nice ? The powers that be have already multiplied by 4 the benefits their friends will be given.
That way, they will avoid 50% of the issues when the final cost of this project ends up sailing past £25 billion.
Because you know it will.
Talk about foresight . . .
that's an additional £14 billion that'll be handed over to the +91 firms or the big consultancies who offshore all the jobs. Although south africa is now being seen as preferential to actually spending UK tax payer cash on UK workers.
micros & small businesses are fucked, we don't even get looked at. They requiring ISo27001,ISO9001, cyber essentials (probably plus soon) for even small firms, and insurances in place before you're on the framework. which means you're potentially £20k down before you've even got a tender with no guarantee of ever getting work, especially as Crown Commercial seems to hate british workers & business.
it's a fucking joke. after the british & americans sent $trillions to the Chinese for the grunt work rather than spending it here & now whinge that chinese firms can do stuff cheaper & better, they've decided that no UK worker should have a high paid career either & that the plebs havings chance to own a ferrari or house was pissing off the CEO class, so now they're shovelling £100s of billions to india.
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