dee_le_brun

The utter incompetence of the big consultancies on show in Australia. New IT infrastructure for Aged Care cost $685M in two years and it is nowhere near being released. An insider said that the system was so poorly designed that it was being scrapped and rebuilt from scratch. The My Health Record project which has blown out by 16 times and is now estimated to have cost $746M and delivered an "outdated, clunky, PDF-based system."

The amount of waste is truly astounding. I've worked in IT for over 20 years and can't fathom how that much money could be spent building what is essentially a CRM. Where does incompetence end and corruption start?

Consultants are supposed to bring commercial thinking and expertise to the government, but they're just gauging massive fees out of the taxpayer.

#auspol #it #publicservice #corruption #incompetence #myhealthrecord

Aug 24, 2024 at 12:07amWeb
Show threadAAug 24, 2024
@dee_le_brun almost like they intentionally fuck things up. Do these things EVER come in on time and on budget? Imagine getting to the end of a house build and your construction company telling you it's now going to take twice as long and cost 10 times more than the quote. Not because of increases in material costs, just because they've been working too slowly and they're incompetent and greedy. Imagine knowing this is a likely scenario and engaging them anyway with zero penalty for overruns.
Show threadNearly Normal (=>÷)Aug 25, 2024

@Moodre @dee_le_brun

In an era where JFC is the standard response to reports like these all I can say is:

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!

Show threadBot4SaleAug 24, 2024

@dee_le_brun If only late delivery penalties were never scrapped and you know, basically opened the floodgates to the super-massive-profits-driven-gravy-train...

PS. It's not too late to return to a late delivery penalty style system, if only value for taxpayer money were an inkling of a consideration for either side of the duopoly government.

#BreakTheDuopoly
#auspol

Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Aug 24, 2024
@dee_le_brun Surely the consultants couldn't have learned how to exploit the govt's IT ignorance by overpricing and underperforming??
Show threadNearly Normal (=>÷)Aug 25, 2024
@anne_twain @dee_le_brun dog forbid
Show threadScott MatterAug 24, 2024

@dee_le_brun

I recall a thread in fark dot com from years and years ago where someone was arguing that the US government spending $600 per screw on some contract was evidence that the public sector was incompetent, and I was stumped as to how they didn’t also recognize the private sector contractor was a price gouging menace to public good…

Show threadI can’t believe its not @twcauAug 24, 2024
@dee_le_brun And that’s to say nothing of:
- how much money was wasted on Entitlement Engine (200m+), and GovERP (340m+); plus
- how much could be wasted on major current and future Government IT projects (AEC Project Indigo; Medicare replacement; and Centrelink Mainframe and Legacy decommissioning (which still isn’t done even after 7yrs and 1.58bn).