Aye, Edinburgh isn't what you'd call a 'smart client' when making these deals.
City of Edinburgh Council in £186m outsourcer swap
City of Edinburgh Council has walked away from a 15-year outsourcing relationship with BT to jump into bed with CGI in a £186m long-term IT outsourcing agreement. It seems Edinburgh can't kick its mega deal habit, with the seven-year CGI contract containing a five-year extension, and further extension options after that. The …
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Tuesday 25th August 2015 15:38 GMT AlanBrown
It's difficult to believe that anyone within the council who authorised the contract has the technical ability to understand what this entails. This is a council that cannot get the basic services like keeping the streets clean, emptying the bins and filling in potholes working correctly. You just have to look at the tram fiasco and how the lawyers of the contractors took the council to the cleaners over the parts of the track building that went to arbitration. So to expect Councillor Lesley Hinds and her cronies to have understood what they are getting into is beyond belief.