However, we hope that Unison will now return to its previously stated commitment to work with the council to achieve a successful outcome to the Bradford-i project. A trade union has raised concerns over the final bids for Bradford Council's £100m...
The council felt the best way to achieve this was to involve a third party. More than 100 IT workers at the council are on indefinite all-out strike over the proposed £100m outsourcing of a modernisation project to the private sector.
While much of the coding was done by third-party, offshore staff, the management was all done in-house. As business conditions change and trends like outsourcing continue to grow, the signs are that in-house technical expertise could become less...
The outsourcing will be carried out incrementally with the first phase to include IT services and the council's call centre, which are currently delivered by both in-house and external third-party suppliers.
We expect those dynamics to change considerably over the next five to 10 years giving CIOs and software procurement officers more bargaining power while potentially reducing software vendor profit margins.
Suppliers and customers often cite 'scope creep' as one of their biggest problems in an outsourcing arrangement - this arises when one party asserts that the parameters of the project have changed once the outsourcing is already underway.