CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by philjohn on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:03AM (#25977878)

This is endemic in tender processes the world over.

I used to work in a role where I had to respond to tenders for the software I led, and it was obvious that if the requirements list wasn’t written by our competitor, the institution had decided they wanted their software and listed every feature they knew only that company offered.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by pm90 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:09AM (#25977909)

Seems like the software procurement process itself is broken.

I guess this could happen with hardware too. But adding more features is much easier in software. Marketing can then argue that it makes a certain product “better”.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by ashtonkem on Sunday January 31, 2021 @09:18AM (#25978977)

It’s not just software. Military hardware procurement is also notoriously corrupt, ditto with local infrastructure projects.

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