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Sweden: Public e-procurement System Saves Taxpayers' Money
White Papers Accepting the common wisdom that a lot of taxpayers' money can be saved by coordinating public procurement procedures, the Swedish government established a coordination function for public procurement in 1998.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Another waste of public money
Talkback This is a sickening wast of money given the state of the public finances and the fact that the next government is almost certainly going to scrap this nonsense. Typical of this government to try and manipulate people into buying into this by making...
[September 28, 2009, 14:18]
STM Delivers Better Value for Public Money With IBM and SAP
White Papers The Societe de transport de Montreal (STM) is responsible for the public transportation systems in the city of Montreal in the Quebec province of Canada. Constant pressure on the public purse means close attention to costs, and managers found that...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Because they are contractually obligated to
Talkback Taxpayers money has been wasted on locking the public sector into these expensive and broken systems that users have *rejected* where given choice. Imagine that - public money spent on a behind-closed-doors exclusive deal with Microsoft that...
[June 2, 2008, 9:54]
no public funding?
Talkback How much public money was necessary to do that? Erm.plenty of public money was thrown at BT in order to get them to enable exchanges that otherwise wouldn't be economic. One example i know of is where BT received £800,000 of public money to enable...
[July 13, 2007, 14:13]
Ofcom: No public funding for 21CN competitors
News The chief executive of Ofcom, Ed Richards, has dismissed the idea of public money being used to fund an alternative next-generation network. How much public money was necessary to do that? Would it have been a waste of taxpayers' money to spend it...
[April 11, 2007, 17:49]
Gov't stung by 'poor value' outsourcing deals
News Taxpayers' money is being squandered on public-sector outsourcing deals where costs are ballooning up to 75 percent more than the going market rate. Lacklustre controls on spending over the full lifetime of government outsourcing contracts are...
[April 7, 2008, 9:20]
Analysts predict Wi-Fi crash
News Most of the money that is being spent creating public wireless hot spots is being wasted, according to research published on Thursday. We believe that much of the money being poured into public WLAN today to enable access -- from places as diverse...
[June 19, 2003, 16:26]
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, Achieving Value for Money in the Delivery of Public Services, says that despite the PAC's reviews of many high-profile IT failures over the last decade many departments still disregard common and well...
[December 7, 2005, 9:00]
CSA IT 'a turkey from day one'
News Despite £539m of taxpayers' money spent on a new IT system, and a further £91m on external advisers, the agency continued to underperform, said the committee. Commenting as the committee published its report on 5 July, 2007, chair Edward Leigh said...
[July 5, 2007, 15:15]
Government consultancy spend criticised
News The NAO said that the government needed to use consultants far more efficiently, or public money would continue to be wasted. There's more to be done to secure value for money, and the government needs to take a much more strategic approach," said...
[December 18, 2006, 13:13]
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
Talkback I have since left such a futile and taxpayers' money-wasting 'career' and wouldn't wish to return to the public sector until such time, if ever, that masons are forced to declare membership of their private club.
[December 7, 2005, 12:28]
McNealy: Controversy makes money
News If there's no controversy, and everybody buys into our ideas and follows them, there is no chance of making money," McNealy told reporters at a press briefing following his public address in Singapore on Wednesday.
[March 24, 2003, 9:19]
No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
Blog These cost a lot of money (despite, in the case of academic journals, usually being produced with public money and the actual authors, as far as I'm aware, not seeing a penny) and are DRM'd to the hilt.
[October 14, 2008, 16:13]
Broadband Cravasse Opening up.
Talkback Its not as though they can say 'Well if you don't like it we will roll out a public/national network - there is just no public money on the table to back up their 'bite'. A 2MB rural Broadband target is just going along with what will already occur...
[May 11, 2009, 11:05]
Red Herring: Park the new venture market in Garage.com
News Proving that even those with the best money connections can sometimes run short of cash, Garage.com, a matchmaker for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, has filed for a $68m (£42m) initial public offering.
[February 16, 2000, 13:37]
Government continues to stonewall over ID card costs
News Academics at the London School of Economics (LSE) claim that integrating the ID cards IT infrastructure with all the government departments and public bodies expected to use the national identity register adds an extra £5bn to £10bn of public...
[February 20, 2006, 11:30]
Calls for EC intervention on mobile auctions
News Spurred on by the recent UK auction of 3G mobile licences which raised £22.5bn for the government, experts, including the Commissioner for the Information Society Erkki Liikanenen, have questioned whether companies will have money to invest in...
[May 11, 2000, 11:09]
Govt broadband plan 'will cut competition'
News Key concerns are that if demand is locked into one network operator it will reduce competition in the market in rural areas, and that using public money to create this infrastructure could then breach EU competition rules.
[August 6, 2003, 9:50]
Government urged to cut consultancy costs
News It is impossible to believe that the public are receiving anything like full value for money from this expenditure," said committee chair Edward Leigh. But consistently relying on external consultants for basic skills is expensive and, over a...
[June 19, 2007, 13:38]
