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Tories commit to sensible public spending on IT projects
Posted Jan 28, 2009
The Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, has welcomed the findings from a report by Dr Mark Thompson (from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University) into how to deliver better value IT procurement and also how to create a more level playing field for open source software applications.
Osborne asked Dr. Thompson to undertake an independent evaluation of how to provide better value for money for taxpayers, having seen so many public sector IT projects go over-budget (or fail completely) over the past decade.
Dr. Thompson's Recommendations
The key suggestions were as follows:
- The Government could save at least £600 million per year if it adopted a more effective open IT procurement process. The open source savings would come not just from reduced licensing costs, but importantly by freeing government bodies from long-term, monopoly supply situations.
- New government data standards should be introduced across government, creating a level playing-field for open source software.
- These new standards would enable large-scale IT projects to be split into small modular components, meaning that the UK government should never again need to sign an IT software contract worth over £100 million - so no more IT 'white elephants'.
The Shadow Chancellor made in clear that the Tories are "looking to the future" with this report:
"We have led the debate on using open source software in government, and I'm delighted that Dr Mark Thompson has come forward with these detailed recommendations. These proposals aren't just about saving money - they're about modernising government, making the public sector more innovative and improving public services."
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