by | Dec 7, 2009 | Central government, eGovernment, Finance, ICT, Procurement, Shared Services
Lots to digest in the Smarter Government report. Headlines: another £12bn in savings over the £26bn from Gershon and £35bn from OEP. In all, that’s approaching 10% of government spend. [NB Steph rightly counsels caution on the numbers.] Good to see that they...
by | Nov 20, 2009 | Central government, ICT
Home office ICT. Nothing too surprising there, although I would be interested in the aggregate cost of the sub-£5m projects ignored in the table. Justice ICT. Lots of meaningless acronyms: I wonder what they are all for? OMNI Transformation, anyone? (A: Steria’s...
by | Nov 16, 2009 | Central government
£3k doesn’t sound like too much to run a Twitter account for BIS. I guess it depends how many followers they have and what benefits that gives to the Department, of course. You can find other costs on a TheyWorkForYou search.
by | Nov 9, 2009 | Central government, Procurement
Mike Cross is right to draw attention to the lack of surprises in the C-Nomis report, and the extraordinary detail in the Haddon-Cave report into Nimrod safety. Let’s make future ones more like that? Comment: A tale of two crashes. While reading the article, I...
by | Nov 4, 2009 | Central government, ICT
Always fascinating to see the eventual costs of projects you have been peripherally involved in. The Shared Business Services piece in the Home office has a £35.9m budget through to 2011, but I think this doesn’t include the initial costs of the ERP...
by | Nov 3, 2009 | Central government
Another programme gets a pasting from the Public Accounts Committee. The evidential transcripts are often very good reading, if you have the time to scan them.
