Birmingham City Council’s controversial £1 billion contract with its IT and call centre provider will be placed under the spotlight through an independent health check.Read
Councillors have criticised Service Birmingham after it emerged that taxpayers were charged £52 for a single Birmingham resident to have his bin bags collected.Read
Major Birmingham City Council contracts should be independently audited to avoid a repeat of the costly off-shoring jobs to India fiasco, it has been claimed.Read
The political backlash and resulting U-turn over the off-shoring of council IT jobs to India last year could end up costing the taxpayer £12.6 million, it has emerged.Read
There are advantages for any organisation in employing expert consultants to help with specific tasks rather than trying to develop expertise in every single activity in-house.Read
The value to Birmingham City Council of its £1 billion contract with Capita has been called into question again after the local authority was quoted £20,000 for a “simple” computer programme change to be implemented.Read
Birmingham City Council has dismissed a complaint that it broke procurement rules to award a lucrative cable installation contract for the new Libary of Birmingham to its own IT partner, the Capita-run Service Birmingham.Read
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