Accenture leans back, receives £86m Met Police contract

We did exactly the same thing at a previous contract of mine, split one large support contract into 3 smaller ones under the umbrella of a main contractor. It resulted in a lot of finger pointing over even the simplest of issues. Theoretically it's a good model. Unfortunately we don't live in a theoretical world.

Should have done some detective work

...before awarding that contract to Accenture.

A brief news search on the terms "Accenture" and "Police Scotland" doesn't look like a great advert. But if the Met can't even drive a web browser, then I suppose a botched IT contract will be the least of the problems the people of London have.

Silly coppers,

tech outsourcing doesn't save money. (Never has, never will.)

And outsourcing to Accenture is just insane.

what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/26/lse_crash_again/

They've hired Accenture to SAVE money??

HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

Just wait until the invoices start coming in for "extra" work required. Which is usually to undo some fuckup one of their "consultants" made in the first place.

Still, one can only hope Accenture live down to their usual low standards and totally bugger up the ANPR database in Hendon which illegally stores data on when and where from all APNR cameras in the country for far longer than the law allows.

Mind how you go!

I'm almost sad I'll be retired before there's a boondoggle to insource everything after the inevtiable abject failure.

NB What ever happened to May's great idea of the 'Police IT Company' to provide these services?

Nice to see that the government are putting their "we're going to outsource to smaller consultancies" plan into practice.

Accenture

They win the contract because the civil service refuse to allow any new company to win a contract on the stupid clause that 'they havent done it before'... of course they havent because only one company hs.

They then pass the work out to a bunch of engineers in Bangalore (further destroying British industry, further draining money from the UK).

Those engineers will never have done anything like this before (the company has, but not the teams used).

The engineers will get paid nearly the same a month as the police are paying accenture a day.

And so the rich fat cats at the top get richer, the lubricating money slides to the civil servants and politicians who ensure the cosy relationship is protected

The tax payer ends up paying a huge bill for nothing much, gets some platitudes, pays unemployment to engineers here that should be doing the job, and sees shops etc. going bust because the engineers who should be being paid but are on the dole aren't buying anything. Then the taxpayer pays housing benefits to the whole damned lot who should be working but aren't

Then the 'powers that be' insult our intelligence by telling us this is all in the name of 'best value'. Not just the computer systems but police cars, army uniforms, guns, tanks, planes, ships, wall paper.. everything is handled in the same way.

Britain goes down the pan

In the meantime OTHER countries go and buy local and their economies survive and sometimes even flourish (find a foreign build cop car in Germany or France... just try, you will fail)