You've got to wonder when the government continually awards huge projects to the same outsourcing firms time after time, and time after time the project is either a total failure or not fit for purpose, and it's delivered years late at a multiple of the original price. And the next big project that comes along? They'll award it to one of the same companies again, and they'll get the same outcome again.

There simply has to be some major skullduggery afoot.

The internal GDS seem to be bucking the trend, delivering good services and contributing to OSS. Surely this demonstrates that an internal team is a better way? Even if they don't deliver entire projects themselvea, they could lead them from a requirements, architect and tech perspective, and have sway over which firm gets the outsourced part.

Not sure what your definition of fraud is (for me it's more like what the British India company did). Wining a tender process that probably needs fixing (because it's obsolete) is not fraud.