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On 28 Nov 2013, at 22:08, Tony Graham <tgraham@m...> wrote: > On Wed, November 27, 2013 5:18 pm, Michael Kay wrote: >>> I wonder how much better these types of projects could go if a more >>> incremental (Agile) approach was taken. The beauty of XML is that if you >>> set >>> the systems up right it can give you amazing flexibility and power >>> combined. >> >> No one knows how to do government-style procurement in an Agile way. The >> only way they know is to write a 10,000 page invitation to tender, have >> three big consultancies spend a few million dollars each writing a 10,000 >> page response to it, and then choosing one of the options. By this time > > "Live-graphing the UK Government’s agile auction" > > https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/11/live-graphing-the-uk-governments-agile-auction/ > This looks like the bidding was on daily rates for services, therefore presumably a time-and-materials contract, rather than the kind of procurement we have been talking about. And there's the rub; with time and materials the supplier is motivated to spin out the work, while with a fixed price for a specified deliverable, the client is forced to specify the deliverable in detail in advance. Neither is at all satisfactory. Michael Kay Saxonica
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