by | Mar 2, 2010 | Central government
Doesn’t seem like a vast amount (c£20m in 2009-10), but Deloitte has clearly won a major programme recently.
by | Mar 2, 2010 | Central government
Answer: 18,000 FTEs. That’s a vast amount of people, but then they are taking probably £150bn in Income Tax (p86), so that’s over £8m / head or a tiny proportion of the total take. Still seems there is a massive opportunity for efficiency here as the code...
by | Jan 26, 2010 | Central government, Finance, ICT, Procurement
John Suffolk (Government CIO) expects a fun year ahead. I have tried to do some back of the envelope calculations based on his items and numbers in the OEP. My italics, all errors mine. HR must move to 1 HR person to 77 FTE from a median of 1:44 (Guesstimate saving on...
by | Jan 26, 2010 | Central government, ICT, Procurement
Interesting to see that the new frameworks are only two years (with a potential two-year extension) this should help keep up with the pace of change in technology (the frameworks include web design, for example). But the £1bn expected to go through the frameworks is...
by | Jan 19, 2010 | Central government, ICT
Looks like Fujitsu’s punt on the shared services contract with the Cabinet Office is paying off, as the DWP moves across. As suspected, this is not directly through Flex, but as a separate contract. So why let Flex in the first place?
by | Jan 13, 2010 | Central government, Local government
Despite the gotcha graphs in the Sunday Times, some focused forensics shows that their comparators are invalid, so the conclusions are suspect at best. There are more part time jobs in the public sector, so the total pay to the public sector per head per hour is...
