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The Department for Work and Pensions has cut spending in 2010-11 with HP and BT, but increased it with Atos Origin. HP Enterprise Services remains the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) second largest supplier, despite a drop in the government's spending with the firm. It received £629.4m in 2010-11, according to figures …

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  1. HamsterNet
    WTF?

    ?

    Thats not a department spending, that a small countries total IT spending..

    How just how can they blow so much on IT in a single year £1 Billion on IT.. Just boggles the mind

    and that's just one department

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    It's a big department

    When I was contracte to Fujitu (who blew the chance to take over the desktop tower) they were talking numbers in the region of 120k client devices (cesktops/laptops etc), and 150k Exchange mailboxes, plus all the infrastructure to support those (AD, filestores, SCCM, SCOM, backup, AV, etc etc).

    Add to that all the the non-Windows and mainframe services...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Also...

      Apologies for the truly DIRE spelling in the above post - it's the keyboard, honest! ;-)

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  3. John I'm only dancing

    My wife

    Works for the DWP and she is always complaining about how pish poor the computers, the system,, basically everything IT is. This has finally explained why this is so.

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  4. Tim of the Win
    Holmes

    IT systems designed by managers with no IT experience, no doubt.

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    1. Miss Lincolnshire
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      WTF?

      Of course .....

      Major Government Department. Huge potential for negative press or ultimately civil unrest if systems fail and benefits and allowances aren't paid.

      Naturally it relies entirely on poorly specified and maintained, overpriced "IT systems designed by managers with no IT experience" of couse it does, "no doubt".

      Any other glib wisdom you'd care to share?

      Every citizen of this counry will interact with a DWP system one way or another. And guess what, that costs money.

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    2. Miss Lincolnshire
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      WTF?

      oh yes no doubt...

      Major Government Department, huge possibility of fallout in the press or even riot by millions not getting their benefits or support allowances etc etc....

      Of course it relies entirely on "IT systems designed by managers with no IT experience"

      Well done you. Any other wisdom you'd care to share ?

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