In Reply to: re: work to rule posted by Recessionista on February 18, 2010 at 13:23:32:

Just returning the needless insult where you say IT consultants wear the underpants on our arm. There are plenty of professional and knowlegeable people in the private sector too who aren't flying by the seat of their pants while being paid exorbitant rates.
You still haven't answered who is responsible for managing all the projects that went wrong. If there is so much expertise in the public sector why don't they have project managers who can deliver what is needed and what was originally specified? It sounds like basic incompetence to me. As for daily rates, I work in the private sector and have worked in IT outsourcing regularly over the years and pay rates of 1,000 a day never existed for your ordinary contractor in the West for private work. Maybe the guys negotiating these deals in the public sector are not up to the job of getting proper value for money.