NHS IT - “no overall concept of affordability or ability to demonstrate value for money”.
Reports from the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) showed that there were concerns from the outset in 2002 about the Government’s ability to take on such a huge project. Over several years the civil servants repeated issues of unrealistic timetables, unknown procurement risk and an inability to predict costs. They wrote that there was “no overall concept of affordability or ability to demonstrate value for money”.
The project is running four years late and its estimated cost has risen from £5 billion to £13 billion.
Stephen O’Brien, shadow health minister, said: “It’s incredible that the Government should have ignored these warnings.”
I think he meant "inevitable" rather than "incredible" - The Government is merely the political wing of the public sector troughers, of course they are going to continue to shovel the swill in.