Government procurement now wrapped with training red tape
The UK government will demand that IT services suppliers have a staff development plan, if they want a slice of its £14bn annual spending on IT services. Skills secretary John Denham said: "Wherever possible Government spending should not just provide good public services, it should also ensure young people are trained in the …
Drop the DNA db hyper-inflation with innocents' details, drop the ID card, drop Contact Point. More than £7.5bn saved, lots of people happy, winners all round.
Now I've acted as a special advisor to Darling, can I claim this pc on expenses now please?
(Pirate, cos MPs are swashing all our buckles with every receipt...)
The Government adds more and more clauses to it's contracts and procurement conditions. It's not a surprise that many smaller businesses don't think it is worth the bother, and why bigger companies end up with full-time permanent employees just to fill in Government forms for public tenders.
The problem is that if you employ administrators all they do is create administration.
Speaking as one former Civil Servant sold to EDS, sold again the HP and who has just been made redundant at 55 - ha ha bl**dy ha.
They'll only leave for a better job.
*Traditional UK management attitude.
a staff development plan...?
well, that simply has to rule out EDS...they don't have them
another update here -
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/05/28/exclusive-hewlettpackard-to-axe-850-workers-at-erskine-plant-despite-1-1bn-profits-86908-21394996/
