Re: Joke!
Just a quick thanks, made me chuckle!
Posts by Bluff and Bluster
7 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Dec 2014
Masked men 'steal' £250k of smartphones from Exertis
UK's Crown Commercial Service creams off £72m from frameworks
Friday 31st July 2015 11:28 GMT
Really?
Never sure what to believe from this power house of civil servants *cough*. I find it all a bit too secretive for my liking. On the magical website (no sarcasm intended, for a change) WhatDoTheyKnow, CCS have only responded to 19 out of 46 FOI requests (openness and transparency rule). An interesting one which they declined to answer related to information on their active frameworks and their associated spend.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_of_all_active_frameworks_an#incoming-621825
Surprisingly this was not information which they held, needless to say I was rather confused when this press release hit on how much kick-back/cream-off-the top/brown envelopes/commission <delete as applicable> they achieved. Hmmmm
Take that NATS! Jocko IT is also totally rubbish. BOOM!
Hey, posh boy. Fancy a £200m PHONE THREESOME?
Monday 12th January 2015 11:44 GMT
More of the same, who says reinventing the wheel is a bad idea?
Maybe they cannot get want they want from the contract that already exists for Mobile Telephony and PSN related services (http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/suppliers?sm_field_contract_id=%22RM1498%3A6%22)
I do find it very confusing, when the Civil Service invest so much time and effort why do other pub.sec. orgs then decide to go and do their own things?
Working over Christmas? Government tech suppliers will be
Monday 29th December 2014 12:22 GMT
Re: Network Services - a Framework too far?
No lessons will be learnt, at the heart of it is that there are no effective managers, merely an army of Civil Servants who are novices when it comes to understanding what the public sector need. However they will be well versed on procurement process, this jigsaw just does not fit together properly.
" I cannot understand the rationale why Network Services had to be so uber complicated." The reason is purely down to lazy procurement, coupled with my comment above that they do not know/understand what it is being procured.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
