Yet another roaring outsourcing success (G4S)

[henryscat]

Complete farce involving G4S, no surprise there then:

http://www.channel4.com/news/g4s-the-anatomy-of-a-shambles

 

[Gramaisc]

Let's hope there might be some repercussions - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-18813591

Jobs still available - http://eventsjobsuk.g4s.com/

It seems that there will be 17,000 military personnel involved now - http://eventsjobsuk.g4s.com/ - I wonder how much of the £284,000,000 we'll ever see again..?

 

[henryscat]

Let's hope there might be some repercussions - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-18813591

Alas they have Crapita and others still on the list...

 

[Gramaisc]

Alas they have Crapita and others still on the list...

I don't really expect it to get better - the most you can really hope for is that it might get worse slightly more slowly - but it won't.

 

[proactive]

Who awarded the contract. The Olympic committee or the Labour government?

Just as well they had the army on standby isn't it. Don't understand how G4S still has any credibility left after all the cock-ups they have made over the years. Don't even get me started on Capita...

 

[Gramaisc]

Credibility doesn't seem to be that necessary these days....

 

[proactive]

Credibility doesn't seem to be that necessary these days....

Or competence, sadly.

 

[henryscat]

Not especially good news for Staffordshire... http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=business.detail&id=105543

 

[Gramaisc]

Not especially good news for Staffordshire... http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=business.detail&id=105543

We might as well just give up.

 

[proactive]

Not especially good news for Staffordshire... http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=business.detail&id=105543

 

[Gramaisc]

Who awarded the contract. The Olympic committee or the Labour government?

Tessa Jowell has just said that the contract was awarded in November 2010 - so, this side of the last election..

I make no recommendation of the veracity of this statement.

 

[proactive]

Tessa Jowell has just said that the contract was awarded in November 2010 - so, this side of the last election..

I make no recommendation of the veracity of this statement.

Still want to know whether it was Olympic Committee or ConDem Government who awarded it though.

Whoever it was needs to walk the plank.

 

[henryscat]

On Newsnight, BBC2 now...

 

[Gramaisc]

Still want to know whether it was Olympic Committee or ConDem Government who awarded it though.

Whoever it was needs to walk the plank.

I wouldn't hold your breath...

Should anybody significaant be held 'responsible', then, I would suspect that they would be furnished with an adequate golden parachute.

 

[70-plus]

Staffs County Council are looking to privatise 5,000 workers and have just met with all those companies like capita, etc to see which one is the best!

 

[tek-monkey]

Well we can't fit them in the new offices, so I guess outsourcing will have to happen.

 

[United57]

Oddly they let event handling out to a number of companies and this has worked well.

May have been better to let the security contract out to lots of companies.

 

[United57]

Staffs County Council are looking to privatise 5,000 workers and have just met with all those companies like capita, etc to see which one is the best!

Believe it or not Microsoft does outsource some of its IT services.

 

[Yalla]

Reminds me of the Census fiasco - that was also outsourced and the recruitment and appointment system was disastrous!

 

[Gas Engineers]

The Jokers G4s have employed two illegal immigrants from Pakistan !