BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m

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• t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Minchin said the total cost “includes the previously stated $4.1m required to redesign the front end of the websites”.

  “The remaining cost ($92.4m) reflects the significant investment required to fully rebuild and test the systems and technology that underpin the website, making sure it is secure and stable and can draw in the huge amounts of data gathered from our observing network and weather models,” Minchin said.

  So 92 MILLION dollars on SQA and maybe some pentesting? Bullshit. Pentests run $50k-$400k for single-domain websites like this, and $400k is on the very expensive end.

  Even if you paid 30 people $200k apiece for 4 years to work on this, which is more people and at higher salaries than would have happened, that would still only come to $24m, less than a third of the cited cost.

  There is no possible way for this to have legitimately cost this much. There was corruption of some kind involved.

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More likely mismanagement, miscommunication, rewrites, and incompetence than corruption.

    All projects of sufficient complexity overrun their cost/time estimates. That’s not even accounting for designers and programmers trying to hit what is likely a moving target.

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    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      92 million dollars over cost on a 4.1 million dollar project is not incompetence and mismanagement.

      Doubling the cost of a project should have triggered reviews or an audit. 23x’ing the cost of a project is either corruption, or such gross negligence with public funds as to be criminal all on its own.

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is why it’s important that governments can shop around and negotiate as well. What the fuck do you mean it costs $78m for Accenture to redesign a website? I’ll gladly do it by myself for half of that.

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• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This should be criminal, somehow.

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