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The £113m was not for a website. It was for a recruitment contract in totality for a decade (total £622m) including all efforts to recruit for the UK army, inc

by buro9 8y ago

The £113m was not for a website. It was for a recruitment contract in totality for a decade (total £622m) including all efforts to recruit for the UK army, including everything that involves... of which a small part was the website but it was supposed to be integrated into everything and included running the old legacy system in parallel for a long while.. The details are in the report https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigation-into-the-British-Army-Recruiting-Partnering-Project.pdf https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigat... But the headline is not the story.

pmyteh 8y ago
The whole contract was actually £1.36bn over 10 years (NAO report, p.2), and the £113m covered the new online recruitment system (including the costs of running the old system longer than expected) and was triple the budget (p.6).
grahamel 8y ago
actually it was, the whole recruitment contract was for £495m, of which £113 went on the website from the NAO summary: > The Army initially expected to launch the new online system in July 2013. As we reported in 2014, the Department failed to meet its contractual obligations to provide the IT infrastructure to host Capita’s recruitment software. In January 2014, the Army passed responsibility for developing the whole system to Capita. After a series of delays, Capita launched the system in November 2017. The Army spent £113 million developing the new system and running the legacy system longer than expected. This was triple the original budget. Capita funded development of the new system and the costs of running the legacy systems from July 2015 https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigation-into-the-British-Army-Recruiting-Partnering-Project-Summary.pdf https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigat...
pjc50 8y ago
The huge red page of KPIs on page 30 is quite the thing.

by buro9 8y ago

pmyteh 8y ago

The whole contract was actually £1.36bn over 10 years (NAO report, p.2), and the £113m covered the new online recruitment system (including the costs of running the old system longer than expected) and was triple the budget (p.6).

grahamel 8y ago

actually it was, the whole recruitment contract was for £495m, of which £113 went on the website from the NAO summary: > The Army initially expected to launch the new online system in July 2013. As we reported in 2014, the Department failed to meet its contractual obligations to provide the IT infrastructure to host Capita’s recruitment software. In January 2014, the Army passed responsibility for developing the whole system to Capita. After a series of delays, Capita launched the system in November 2017. The Army spent £113 million developing the new system and running the legacy system longer than expected. This was triple the original budget. Capita funded development of the new system and the costs of running the legacy systems from July 2015 https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigation-into-the-British-Army-Recruiting-Partnering-Project-Summary.pdf https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigat...

pjc50 8y ago

The huge red page of KPIs on page 30 is quite the thing.