Business Link website cost £105 million

This is unbelievable. ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE MILLION ENGLISH POUNDS for what?If you haven’t visited the site please do so ( www.businesslink.gov.uk)  and come back here once you’ve picked yourself off the floor. If you start looking into the figures they spent £4.4 million just on design. What pigging design! If they were paying the designers £80 per hour then they have been billed for 55,000 hours – roughly 6.3 years in design time alone. How can that be possible? Who was running this project? When agreeing to spend over £100 million pounds of tax payers money on a single website who signs off the cost proposal? Surely, Lord Mandelson must have been aware of this. The total lack of accountability is obscence. Some half wit steals a book and gets 8 years in jail, yet these politicians and civil servants fritter away millions and don’t even have to apologise. Clearly, the procurement process has gone badly wrong – perhaps they should have had a look at the advice offered at Choosing the right suppliers on their own website.

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