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You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

Paul Bowes

@paulmbowes.bsky.social

2 Mar 2025

We badly need something like 18F in the UK.

Dan Hon

@danhon.com

You do, 18F was inspired in part by GDS

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Paul Bowes

@paulmbowes.bsky.social

2 Mar 2025

Which makes it all the more surprising that so many British public sector IT projects here are given - as though inevitably - to the same handful of contractors who have a long track record of failure. Perhaps that's a political failure.