[paxiongmap]

> The remaining organisation was anything but a competent customer for IT implementations.

This is very much the standard in UK public procurement and has been for a large number of years. It's got a lot worse since Brexit when most civil servants with any skills or capability to deliver have moved on because they didn't want to deliver the 'will of the people' to have their cake and eat it.

[mike_hearn]

Can you evidence that claim? The only major public sector procurement effort I can recall since Brexit was the COVID vaccine in which the UK procurement programme worked much better than the EU level one did, to the extent that at the height of the event the EU was seriously talking about seizing the factories manufacturing vaccines the UK had bought whilst the EU were still talking.

And they also bought far too much. Germany is now required by the EU treaties to buy so much vaccine supply that if it didn't expire it would last them until the 24th century.

After all that, there was an attempt at an investigation but it turned out the whole thing was negotiated in secret and key deals were made by Ursula von der Leyen using deleted SMS messages.

[pjc50]

> whole thing was negotiated in secret and key deals were made by Ursula von der Leyen using deleted SMS messages.

This is completely different from the British system, where key deals are made in secret using deleted Whatsapp messages.