UK: Another IT Fiasco?

Depressing reading in The Times

Jill Sherman Whitehall Editor
August 27 2014

"The country’s biggest IT contract is heading for disaster under plans to split it into 100 parts, putting billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money at risk, experts have warned.

Leading industry specialists have told The Times that splintering the £10 billion Aspire contract, which holds the tax records of 50 million Britons, will end in chaos, with higher costs and a substantial risk to the economy".

What happened with the Universal Credit IT System? NHS Records? BBC Digital Media Initiative - and a host of other over-ambitious regional and national projects?