But no worries – a very few people have got very, very rich on the back of these failed projects!
“The Ministry of Justice’s “botched contracting” of probation services will cost the taxpayer £467m.
Reforms to probation services, which began in 2013, have failed to meet expectations, the National Audit Office has said in a report out today.
Although, contracts with probation providers were ended early, the ministry’s “rushed roll-out” will still be costly, the NAO concluded. …”
https://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2019/03/mojs-probation-services-contracting-botched-and-costly
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“Fresh shots have been fired at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) from both government and private sector for failures in procuring public contracts.
The department must share the blame with outsourcing giant Capita for “failing dismally” at meeting the Army’s recruitment targets, a service which the FTSE 250 firm was tasked with delivering in 2012, MPs said on Friday.
The influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) group of MPs accused the Army of “naively” launching into the decade-long contract, and said Capita did not fully understand the complexity of it.
PAC chair Meg Hillier said the contract was “intended to meet the Army’s annual recruitment targets and save money in the process”.
“It has failed dismally at the former and has a mountain to climb in order to hit its target for the latter.”
A December report by the National Audit Office found as of July 2018, the Army was seven per cent below its required strength in terms of regular soldier numbers due to the lack of successful recruitment. …”
http://www.cityam.com/273964/your-country-needs-you-capita-and-mod-must-share-blame
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