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The Obama Administration has ordered US federal agencies to hold off on purchasing new PCs in hopes of patching up a broken ordering system.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has put a hold on new desktops and notebooks while it sorts through what it says are "thousands" of new system orders every year.
OMB said that because agencies lack a standardized way to order, maintain, and replace their IT infrastructure, officials are forced to seek out their own contracts and purchase orders to get new PCs, leading to huge accumulated costs in waste.
"There is no need for thousands of contracts to purchase common laptops and desktops," the OMB said in its order late last week.
What answer do you predict the US government will reach, "Surfaces for everyone!"?
(Score: 4, Informative) by el_oscuro on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:25AM
About 20 years ago I worked for a government agency as a contractor. I took a job for a different contract, then returned 6 months later to the same agency on a different part of the contract.
On my first day back, the government accountant was waiting for me at my desk, with an invoice for about 10 long distance calls I had made on the previous contract. Several were to Oracle tech support, a few were to my voice mail at home (in state "long distance" was a big rip-off back then). Anyway, after the Oracle support calls were discounted, my "long distance" calls to my voice mail amounted to:
$1.25.
I found enough loose change in my pocket to pay him. I wonder how many billable hours the government spent getting back that $1.25?
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