Posts by BearishTendencies

Re: What?

Liam Maxwell.

Re: Why not store some data offline?

Of course it does! It needs to be tokenised and stored as an NFT on a private blockchain. That's the future.

Re: Still reinventing the wheel from scratch

Doesn't work. See the 'One Oracle' shared service in London for how well it doesn't work.

Re: How do they do it?

Only the mere 20 years as a commercial practitioner....

Re: You can only get away with a screw you attitude...

Nowhere near £1bn. Myself and some colleagues did the sums a few years back when I was working on procuring the master agreements with Oracle, Microsoft etc. It was a lot but nowhere near £1bn.

Re: Yes, it's only 1/16th of the budget.

Afraid not. £1bn is the total over all the multiple G-Clouds, against an annual comparison. The best is £500m per year.

Re: How about doing some research, commenters?

Hi Liam,

Long time no see.

Love,

Bearish Tendencies

Purdah is civil servantese for.....

Its Election time so we can't make a decision that an incoming Government might not want to do.

http://www.civilservant.org.uk/jargon.pdf

Re: Or just Brexit!

Not for IT. It's just over £100k over the course of the contract

Think the point was the fuck up in outsourcing it in the first place....

Not the consequent court action (which is a waste but inevitable if the supplier isn't performing, which itself is also inevitable)......

Somerset are at it too. SouthWest One with IBM is being terminated too....

Re: Sooo

I think you're confusing what the sensible people in HMRC want to do and the 'Digital team' and GDS want them to do.

Clusterfuck ahoy!

(Unless the PAC hearing on RPA actually has the effect it should and throw this shit in the bin)

Re: Bottom line

Or its that Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea have huge opportunities for collecting revenue from other souces of income due to their geographical and population advantages?

Re: Licensing

Been there, done that....

Enterprise Application Support Services contract.

I used to handle these as a consultant on a regular basis

In one case, they tried to pursue my client for a settlement. Turned out the licences weren't theirs. They were the outsourcers. And they didn't expect it to be noticed....

Re: It is unclear how much has been saved...

If only it was that much.

Re: How else do SAP sell their ****?

Oracle ones go just as well.....

Re: To aid the shambles that is Government Contracting

It can't be put through a CCS framework. CCS is an instrument of the Government. Parliament must be independent of Government. Hence Parliament has its own procurement function and can't touch any of the frameworks of CCS or any other public body for that matter.

Having worked with Stephen Kelly in Cabinet Office

I can assure you that this is not a picture of 'some kind of grinning lizard in a skin suit'. It is instead a picture of 'an enormous bellend of a grinning lizard in a skin suit'.

Re: Well.....that's a shock

That was the point. There's no one actually responsible. And if the limitation of liability is the value of the contract then a £154m spend could go up in smoke with a maximum claim being a few million......

Ahhh CEO......

The only job where you get bonuses whether you do your job or not.

Re: Sweeping statements

Any chance you could tell that to GDS?

Re: Value?

Bloody obvious what they're getting....the full G-Cloud buy what you want, how you want, no need to worry, it's all OK, it's all great value experience.

Re: C.R.A.P.

You missed off the ita at the end.

Re: Really?

You're confusing the technology licensing with the EBS licensing. The tech will either be by processor or by NUP. I suspect the former but I don't know.

There's then another set of licences to use the ERP. That's what's being paid by use and will be pennies per 'licence'. It was, at one point, the standard way of licensing purchase orders and expense management as it kept it simple.

El Reg and others (including HMG themselves who produced the chart in here http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2011/11/oracle-has-70-per-cent-of-soft.html) have done this article before and made the same mistake of conflating two very different licences and adding them up to give a single number. It's completely erroneous to do that conflation. Apples =/= pears.