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19:16 9th February 2010
The UK public sector IT is underperforming and much more costly compared to other similar countries, a new report has warned.
The "Government IT: The way forward" report, conducted by specialist IT supplier Erudine, urges officials to replace intricate service level deals and long-term supplier contracts with running standard IT infrastructure on the cloud, which could be shared across the government.
It also claims that the government is not benefiting from innovative low-cost IT solutions because too much of its IT is "owned and run by too few, too powerful, incumbent prime contractor third parties, which are in practice rewarded for incremental changes achieved at the cost of long-term sustainability."
In other news, IT suppliers must target specific needs in the following years to make sure they tap into government spending, according to a market expert.
Jan Duffy, research director at the IDC, said suppliers should meet the need for modern infrastructures and application capabilities, streamlined processes as well as cost containment or reduction.
Written by Hannah James
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