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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

NEFF Charity Fraud Symposium

north east fraud forumDetails of the the North East Fraud Forum Symposium on Charity Fraud, to be held on the 13th of September 2004 are available. The venue is again to be St. James's Park, home of Newcastle United FC .
The conference is covering Charity Fraud especially and includes speakers from The Metropolitan Police as well as representation by local forces such as Durham and Northumbria; Charity orgainsations such as RNIB.
Key topics will be : Tax Fraud; Probate Fraud; Terrorist Financing; and Money Laundering
Related Links
North East Fraud Forum
APACS Card Watch web site with special focus on 'plastic card fraud'
Card Security Week 10-15 November 2003 Keeping Your Card Safe on the New High Street
Chip and PIN programme in the UK
CIFAS - The UK's Fraud Prevention Service

posted by Robert Campbell 3:19 PM

There's no such thing as a fixed price contract

EDS LogoNews out that EDS is counter-suing BSkyB over a failed CRM development contract for £60M fails to impress. In a very long running and acrimonious dispute BSkyB announced last week that it was to sue EDS over non delivery of a CRM call centre solution which it terminated way back in December 2002.
As usual in these things each is blaming the other for the non-delivery. BSkyB claims EDS made fraudulent claims in its Tender while EDS claim unmanageable changes in scope and requirements
Well talk about the bleedin obvious, please tell me when a major IT contact has never suffered from too much change? Anyone remember the Wessex Health Authority fiasco?
The sooner the big IT systems provides like EDS and their procurement counterparts get into Open Book Accounting and Shared Risk-Reward style contracts such as the Boeing 777 development, which was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget, the better
Related Links
EDS countersues BSkyB in £60m contract row by Andy McCue Silicon.com
BSkyB to sue EDS over £60m CRM contract
Boeing 777 Development Programme
BSkyB Corporate Media Centre
EDS Corporate

posted by Robert Campbell 1:47 PM


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