Tories promise Microsoft and Google lucrative IT contracts
THE BRITISH Tories have said that they will hand over shedloads of government IT contracts to pals at Microsoft and Google.
Apparently this is to reverse the trend of government contracts going to Labour Party friendly outsourcers who produce nothing but cost overruns for IT systems that don't work.
It is seems that Tory leader David Cameron has been on the blower to the Vole and Google and they think that they can sort out every computer problem the government has, for a price.
It has been known for some time that the Conservatives have a special relationship with Google, which has been telling them that a public owned patient records database would be very expensive.
Instead, Google claims, it would be better to shove the whole lot on a database which already exists such as Microsoft Healthvault or Google Health.
Cameron adds that patients will have the choice of storing their records with private companies, although the Telegraph has not been able to find out what will happen to records for patients who do not consent.
There are some suspicions about what Google will do with health care records and we guess the government would have to nail it down to a very strict privacy contract.
Google and the Vole have been telling Cameron that the country would save half of the £1.65 billion it spends on IT annually if their paws were on the tiller. Obviously they donate money to the Tory party so they must be right.
Still something has to be done with the "National Programme for IT", one of the biggest computer contracts in the world, which is designed to link more than 30,000 doctors with nearly 300 hospitals.
So far Parliament's public accounts committee has warned that if the scheme was not showing signs of moving forward by July, hospitals should have to ditch it. It is currently costing taxpayers an estimated £12.7 billion.
Still, it is a bit spooky that the established method of gaining lucrative government contracts will officially and publicly be based on private assurances to political parties from a company's marketing department. µ
Share this:
ShareBusiness Intelligence Software
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Accounting Software
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Systems Management
that all the other outsourced software projects effectively went to and failed?
Projects designed by MS certified consultants and handed out to MS certified engineers to be implemented using MS products?
You may cut out some of the middlemen but the result will still be the same only surprisingly more costly as MS lawyers will ensure even larger payment on failure than success.
It is better the Tories hiring local open sourced developer than big company like Google and Microsoft.
So I see that the Tories are all for supporting US companies then?
Why don't they choose some of the local Open Source companies to sort out the problems. That way the systems can be made to interoperate rather than using proprietary crap.
Not to mention I don't see Microsoft and Google playing friendly together. Are the Tories just plucking company names out of the air?
One of the certainties of life is, governments waste OUR money by the skipload.
I would bet that,virtually any university graduate doing computer programming et'c, could create a working health database,using open saucery, for a tiny fraction of what has been spent on the NHS database scheme.
What is more,as a taxpayer, I would gladly cough up £50m in a competition for any student that produced such a database,according to the sepec's required.
It's an odds on certainty,that it would be better than that which is currently being produced.
More pertently,the scheme was more about giving money to New Labour backers & giving the Americans the private details of ALL UK citizens.
Would some kind soul please second me for a Nobel peace prize, for,discovering the DENSEST human on the planet,who comes under the guise of,'GORDON BROWN'?
Everyone knows Charlie took Temple Ball hit At Darpa, Maybe even with Darfa. Now heres New Invention that could of Saved Charlie Million.
General Dynamics Robotics Systems' Second Generation Tactical Autonomous Combat-Chassis, or T2, ns. It taken RoboCar to beyond mere desert test & identifies pedestrians. it usually Brakes 'bout 10 feet to far, however.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/05/robot-vehicle-may-do-armys-dull-dirty-work/?source=newsletter_local-washington-dc_headlines
So both Charlie & US Army Seek improvements. Tell 'Em ,Your Story Charles. Maybe Army Understand.
No-Engineers, Go Tell IT On Mountain or With 'd Army & WIN. FULL Comba.
vondrashek
government giving money to private industries?
theyve been doing it for years and getting fat off the proceeds of a lazy directorship
politics is now a lucrative career for this reason - we are being robbed and we cant do anything about it
Does anybody want Microsoft or Google having anything to do with sesitive private information - like health records. Anyway I seem to remember reading somewhere that Microsoft's behaviour in the 'market' has raised serious doubts their eligibility, in UK law, to tender for public service contracts. Can anybody clarify that?
when the UK Government ran IT projects on time and to budget.
They had a central Civil Service staffed consultancy which provided support for all departments, called CCTA. This provided cheap 'contractors' and negotiated good prices from a position of knowledge.
The IT industry all lobbied to have it closed down. It was, and now the IT industry are making fat profits for providing nothing, as they intended.
Bring back CCTA!!