IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
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Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#2where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code.
How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
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Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#4where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code. How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
Most governments have public portals (or you have to register with your company details but it's basically open apart from that) that they post RF{I,T,Q}s on.
Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#5where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code. How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
Most government contracts in Canada are posted to Merx[0]
Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#6where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code. How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
In the EU, there's the Official Journal of the EU (OJEU) which all public sector procurements over a certain size (~£100k but varies) must be publicised in.
Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#7where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code. How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
> where does someone find government contracts to bid on?
The country club
Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#8Mind boggling. What could possibly be so complicated about a payroll system? Does anyone here have insight into this problem space?
Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#9where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code. How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
The government creates a Request for Proposal (RFP) listing what the government wants.
Companies have some listed period that could be as short as 7 days or as long as 6 months to respond with a Proposal of work including costs.
Government then reviews and picks one based on the stated criteria.
This might seem like a reasonable solution, but it adds significant overhead.
Re: IBM contract cost for failure-plagued Phoenix payroll system jumped to $185M
#10where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code. How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
Most agencies have listings publicly available. It's actually not that hard to bid for a contract if you follow the rules.