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Iv only sent that to show, how reputation, and how it makes mod look when they see this headline and how it affects future contracts. Also the point am making is these mod contracts are low margin contracts. Failing kpis translates to fines....let's see whether end of May they stick to the deadline. I sure will be posting to remind you :)...for me, wage pressure is the key point..impossible to argue against..I shall keep u inform should any strike materialises..
Until then it's been 5 months and am still waiting for a disposal which you've documented about lol ...I shoudav expected atleast 2 agreed sale by now. Imho
Jeez AM you are having to scratch back to 2019 articles- think you just hit the bottom of the barrel- let’s hope you don’t need to go back in time further
In my time, I remember the MOD turning up every now and again to audit outsourced contracts. Some were more than 10 years old and if a document wasnt available to support a spend, they'd knock it off the bill. Its a dogs life working for the MOD.
This information is from March 2019
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/98547/army-and-capita-must-share-blame-for-soldier-recruitment-failures/
The Army has managed the Programme passively but Capita's performance has been abysmal since it started, and it has failed to meet the Army's recruitment targets every single year of the contract – an unacceptable level of service delivery.
We are not convinced that the Army will manage Capita strongly enough to improve performance or avoid Capita charging excessively for the continued use of the online recruitment system after 2022. We are also highly sceptical that the Army will achieve its forecast savings as a result of employing Capita.
If the contract does not deliver the anticipated savings, this waste of taxpayers' money undermines confidence in MoD planning.
Some of the problems establishing this contract are similar to those on the MoD's other major contract with Capita on the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, which it will end five years early due to poor performance.
We are disappointed to see the MoD replicate the contract management errors that our Committee sees all too often across government.
Kpi fines....no company would publish fines in a news article as it remains between contracts and client..simple reason that it comes into question why MOD chose capita and for capita, its about reputation in delivering which would affect future contract bids.
Just look at how it reads lol.. SATs system going down causing one teacher to hand in resignation as a result....just tvl strike could be happening soon...I'll post the article should they happens for you to read :) imho
The headline just questions any future MoD contracts imho
There are no kpi failings
Capita said there was no breach
This got investigated- and system taken off line during the investigation
It was concluded there was no breach- Capita doing a great job
System will now get rebooted- expected back on line end of May
All good
Let's see if they meet the deadline eh, surely kpi failings translates to fines...
So challenges capita have facing with in the last 30 days has been. SATs system going down, MOD recruitment system still being down ( extra costs and fine eating into margins) and demand for higher wage by union... imho
Capita insisted that DRS was not breached. They said the investigation, commissioned by Defence Digital, which manages IT and cyber defences for the Armed Forces and is conducted by a third party, found no data was accessed.
Instead, the compromised data is thought to be the log-in details of applicants stolen during attacks on their personal computers, not DRS servers.
Capita said it expected it to be back in service by the end of May.
Gosh, I have to spell it out for you..quoted from the article.
'The website was shut down on the 14th of March and remains closed TODAY. If you want to learn more about the compromised data, you can read more on the compromise of recruit data that caused the shutdown'
Here's the recruitment vacancy:
https://www.totaljobs.com/job/soldier/army-job97446123
Yes that’s correct- it was off line while the potential data breach was investigated. The investigation concluded there had not been a breach. Now the system will get rebooted back up - it says that should be by end of May
Please read properly!
The British Army recruitment website has now been nonfunctional for two months and has now, temporarily, been replaced by a post on a jobs website.
AM it’s not actually been replaced at all. There was an investigation to see if there had been a data breach- there hadn’t- the system will now get re-booted back up
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/armys-113m-recruitment-site-offline-replaced-by-169-advert/
Operational improvement I hear u say?
What are the chances of this contracts being renewed..the fine for KPI failings...the cost to advertise each job externally is unexpected cost ...business reputation and future MoD Contracts...this is why capita failing makes serco look very good imho
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/11/mods-173m-army-recruitment-system-replaced-139-job-advert/
Now that's embarrassing? MoD gone external for army recruit on a contract capita was paid to do...Imho