(not satire – it’s the UK today)
Hang on to your hats – here’s an example of government incompetence and downright corruption that’s so extreme it’s bordering on the surreal.
In 2011, the coalition government asked French firm STERIA to set up a £116m IT programme to help run staffing, procurement and payroll services for 90,000 civil servants.
But now the coalition government has decided to write off £56m of taxpayers’ money after the project was deemed to be late, over budget and obsolete.
Another IT project has been set up in its place outsourced to another private firm called Shared Services Connected Limited.
Which is 75% owned by STERIA.
In other words. The government have written off a failed project run by a private firm (STERIA) and decided to hand it over to another company (STERIA) owned by the same firm (STERIA).
And on top of that – STERIA have decided to outsource British jobs to…
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Why would anybody want to build another staff and payroll software. There are plenty of UK Software Companies selling them. What do think all the other businesses are using. Waste of time, money and brain power or is that lack of brain power. They should all be sacked. Having worked in IT for the last 35 years, I can’t believe this waste of money is still going on.