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Story: Union urges caution over gov't outsourcing plans

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Bad contractual preparation

There are many failures by Government in the IT field. Examination will show that these are almost invariably due to incompetent civil servants preparing the specifications and neglecting performance failure penalties to protect the public purse.
In house Government IT has long been shown to be uncontrolled spend on a mixture of often incompatible systems that fail to properly meet the requirement.
Good, properly prepared, contracts for outsourcing are the ideal answer. Failure to meet the contractual requiremen t must always be on the shoulders and purse of the contractor. Where a failure to obtain a proper result is due to bad contractual preparation the civil servants responsible must be held accountable and removed without compensatory payoff.

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