I have known two people who worked in the Queensland Health payroll roll-out. Both actually blamed the government for constantly changing specs, and politicians making claims in parliament about deliverables and deadlines that they then had to meet. They also said IBM (or whatever actual contractor they had on the ground) should have managed things better.

I now work with someone who was at Main Roads Queensland who claims the whole of the Queensland government has an implicit ban on IBM for any new work, and are trying to replace all current IBM products and services.

Edit: My previous job used DB2 on an IBM server. During end of financial year time we had to ask them to turn on more server processors on the server. Jeeesus they charge like a wounded bull!