> Sadly, they will happen again and again and again, I think. The principles that the Government Digital Service tried to instill/make departments adopt should

> Sadly, they will happen again and again and again, I think. The principles that the Government Digital Service tried to instill/make departments adopt should prevent that I think that kind of behaviour was endemic among outsourcing companies around that time and they acted with impunity on government contracts. Sky outsourced a contract to EDS. EDS had delivery problems. It all ended in court: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/bskyb-v-eds https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/bskyb-v-eds What won it for Sky seemed to be the fundamental dishonesty of a single individual at EDS who claimed they had worked on an MBA that anybody could buy via an "internet university". The Sky lawyer bought a degree for the dog named Rover. The could have gotten away with incompetence but when the liar doubled down on lying that was the end.