[Gllug] Government IT projects and wasted money

[John G Walker]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:49:04 +0100 Bruce Richardson
<itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:

> politicians are very
> reluctant to hold private contractors to account; they put the
> services out to tender to increase efficiency

It's not so much to increase efficiency (though that's what they say
for public consumption) as that the costs of outsourced projects do not
appear on the books as government expenditure. Of course, the money
come from the same source in both cases,

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 All the best,
 John
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