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I would love to hear the details of this project. Perhaps it can made into a lessons learned (yet another one) for high up government officials. There has to be

I would love to hear the details of this project. Perhaps it can made into a lessons learned (yet another one) for high up government officials. There has to be something to learn here. Anyone have any info on this?

hawkice 12y ago
> Perhaps it can made into a lessons learned (yet another one) for high up government officials. I'd be much more interested in comparatively low level people, maybe a team lead or something? I feel the exact same way -- how could someone not be genuinely curious about this type of thing? But I'm a little weary of getting a 'series of tubes' style answer from someone (see the White House response to Healthcare.gov as perhaps a best-reasonably-likely-case scenario -- it didn't foul up the explanation completely but also didn't really speak to the details in any way that you or I would like).
- unfocused 12y ago
  I'm thinking more and more about this and other questions have come up. The population of Ontario is about 13 million. This isn't even a national service. It's provincial only. Besides what appears to be terrible software, you have to wonder about the procurement methods? i.e. How the contracts were awarded, measures to ensure that money is properly spent, protection clauses that ensure that the government gets value for dollar, etc. To spend that much money on something that small is mind boggling.
  - pakled_engineer 12y ago
    This happens all the time, massive overpriced contracts to gov cronies of what is essentially just a glorified database http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9840193 http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9840193 http://www.techvibes.com/blog/bc-government-scraps-scrap-89-million-in-school-software-2011-09-19 http://www.techvibes.com/blog/bc-government-scraps-scrap-89-...
- beached_whale 12y ago
  Looks like IBM had the contract for it. Who knows was the scope of the original RFP was though. http://www.opseu.org/information/we-can-do-it-information-sheet http://www.opseu.org/information/we-can-do-it-information-sh...
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hawkice 12y ago

> Perhaps it can made into a lessons learned (yet another one) for high up government officials. I'd be much more interested in comparatively low level people, maybe a team lead or something? I feel the exact same way -- how could someone not be genuinely curious about this type of thing? But I'm a little weary of getting a 'series of tubes' style answer from someone (see the White House response to Healthcare.gov as perhaps a best-reasonably-likely-case scenario -- it didn't foul up the explanation completely but also didn't really speak to the details in any way that you or I would like).

unfocused 12y ago
I'm thinking more and more about this and other questions have come up. The population of Ontario is about 13 million. This isn't even a national service. It's provincial only. Besides what appears to be terrible software, you have to wonder about the procurement methods? i.e. How the contracts were awarded, measures to ensure that money is properly spent, protection clauses that ensure that the government gets value for dollar, etc. To spend that much money on something that small is mind boggling.
- pakled_engineer 12y ago
  This happens all the time, massive overpriced contracts to gov cronies of what is essentially just a glorified database http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9840193 http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9840193 http://www.techvibes.com/blog/bc-government-scraps-scrap-89-million-in-school-software-2011-09-19 http://www.techvibes.com/blog/bc-government-scraps-scrap-89-...
beached_whale 12y ago
Looks like IBM had the contract for it. Who knows was the scope of the original RFP was though. http://www.opseu.org/information/we-can-do-it-information-sheet http://www.opseu.org/information/we-can-do-it-information-sh...
- deleted 12y ago
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