Re: Do they think we're daft?
Until someone developing a billion-item million-transaction-per-second system for HMRC gets paid the same as someone developing such a thing for Tesco, there will be a flow of people from HMRC to Tesco.
And follow this chain of thought.
HMG outsources to $ORG. $ORG needs some more staff. So it advertises with a salary sufficient to cause a flow of staff from Tesco to $ORG. $ORG then bills HMG for their services. Plus a profit margin. Plus administrative overheads.
And HMG now has to employ a contract manager to keep track of whether things are going OK. And a lawyer, when they aren't.
And this is supposed to save money??
I wonder how many of the people responsible for the outsourcing are now working for $ORG?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
