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Australia DTA Hands Over More Money for Another Gov Front End Without a Business Case

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday June 04 2020, @09:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the Spend-money-to-make-business-happy dept.

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The Australian government's DTA (Digital Transformation Agency) already forked over a large sum of money to have its public servants in Services Australia (nee Centrelink/Medicare) build a front end for Australians to access Government services and payment information. Now it is looking to redo that work by paying a contractor an exorbitant amount of money for yet another government portal website, this time to the tune of an increasing amount of money to Deloitte. Dubbed "Son-of-mygov", the cost has now blown out to 23 million after it previously doubled to 19.5 million from the original contract. This is, of course, business as usual for Deloitte who charge any changes as businesses do. For the Australian tax payers who are funding this project there should be great concern as son-of-mygov has no business case with yet another business being paid to formulate one while Deloitte builds the new system.

Do we start building roads before having a plan for why a road is needed?

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  • (Score: 2) by lizardloop on Thursday June 04 2020, @12:09PM (3 children)

    by lizardloop (4716) on Thursday June 04 2020, @12:09PM (#1003152) Journal

    Reminds me of my customers. Nothing a customer loves more than buying a nice shiny web portal with all the latest whizz bang design styles in it. I look forward to 5 years in the future when they will be buying yet another web portal to do the same thing but with the latest design stylings.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2020, @01:38PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2020, @01:38PM (#1003179)

    Sounds like the idiots who buy a top range PC because it's all flashy and shiny and cool looking

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 04 2020, @05:13PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 04 2020, @05:13PM (#1003293) Journal

      Like the real computers on TV.

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday June 04 2020, @05:26PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday June 04 2020, @05:26PM (#1003297)

    I see multiple problems with this post:

    1. By that time, they will have more money to spend. What are they supposed to use it on, bonuses? Daycare? What are you, a socialist?
    2. This is what CSS is for [csszengarden.com] anyway, and if you're lucky, it'll accompany an overinflated contract.
    3. If you're *really* lucky, you can reuse an older design for a 'retro' look, accompanied by another overinflated contract. Hopefully by then you'll have a few options from over the years from which you can select and reuse a "best-of-breed" design.