The Register has asked the Cabinet Office for a comment
Why? Don't you know your betters don't need to be bothered by the likes of you?
Now let the natural party of government get on with... whatever it is it does.
The UK's Government Digital Service – the Whitehall body responsible for transforming government IT – is having problems paying staff because of, er, technical issues. In an internal email sent within GDS, and seen by The Register, the body said: "We are aware of a number of pay related issues currently within GDS." Last …
"By not paying the staff they don't have to sort the IR35 issues."
A faulty payroll system won't bother the contractors. They get paid against invoice and if that payment system fails theirs always the Small Claims Court (never let the outstanding sum exceed the SCC limit) and bailiffs.
I believe the government to be entirely satisfied with outsourcing bosses, at least 'industry' bosses, just look at trains (e.g. arriva - deutsch bahn), planes (BA = International Airways Group (Spain)) and automobiles - (surely nothing needs to be said, but the best may be say, Nissan; calling up the week after for a special, unspecified insurance over any incurred brexit costs).
Not to mention ARM to Softbank (immediately after the £ crash/discount), Thames Water; any electricity supplier, etc. I may indeed find additional examples to go on with, but it's already depressing so I'll instead find some article in the mail hating on poor people to make me feel better. Dragging us down. Yeah that's got to be it.
I wonder what will happen when there's nothing left to sell. Maybe that time is already here.
SSCL is a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and French outsourcer Sopra Steria, intended to shift departments' back office servers and ERP systems into privately owned shared services centres.
So...a key business function got outsourced abroad, it all went wrong, and now they're suffering as a result.
Well I never...who'd have ever expected that?
Why did I, upon reading that, immediately imagine that the new system hadn't been tested properly ?
Doesn't anyone do dry runs before putting into production any more ? I'm guessing they tested the parts, but they obviously didn't test the whole thing.
with most of the other shared services.
i.e. inflexible, expensive, and no idea what the end-consumers needs are...
Failure to pay people is just an example of the above - normal organisations would have probably tried to send out a few transactions in advance of payday to make sure it all worked and links/credentials were all in place.
So, the Cabinet Office outsourced to SSCL which outsourced to Sopra Steria which outsourced to ..
Here in VietNam we have no cheques - the banks have a fund raising system called Transfers.
Whenever you want to pay a bill or send money somewhere UNLESS you go to the payee's actual branch, there is the money raising Transfer Fee.
The law also requires that payments in excess of USD$3,500 equivalent (79,420,893 Dong) in an effort to get people to pay VAT!
My company does sizable business with EVN (Electricity VietNam-government owned) every month well in excess of USD$11,000 equivalent, The Invoices we have to issue are basically word-processed without any numbers other than the amount owed.
Within a few days Mr. Moneybags rolls up on his motorcycle, with a bulging square briefcase, and he walks in straight to the rear of the premises. He calmly counts out 78 blocks of money, all neatly tied up with strings and a special seal. We sign a simple receipt and he's off. Next day he returns, same process.
On the final day he counts out the precise balance and, again, a simple receipt concludes the transaction.
People like this system - it works day and night, rain or shine, power on or off. Best of all is the no VAT deal.
Beats computers and cash registers every time!