"Think it was a way of giving massive amounts of cash to the private sector?"
No, that would require a level of planning I don't think government IT spending is capable of. More likely someone turned up on their doorstep one day with a new shiny and they agreed to buy it at some point during a boozy three-hour lunch.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 9 Mar 2017, 13:13,
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I'm willing to bet a large sum of money this was done by Capita.
Or Crapita as those wags at Private Eye insist on calling them.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 9 Mar 2017, 13:19,
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more likely they aren't allowed to recruit people to develop in-house
that was my frustrating experience of the public sector, but there's always capital for projects:
Me: "we need some software developers so we can do something cheaply"
Senior management: "write a tender"
Edit: ...then procurement make a stupid decision following their 3hr boozy lunch
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