The problems with the ICT Department of the municipality of Amsterdam appear to be much larger than previously thought. B&W is afraid of setbacks of more than 40 million euros, partly due to incompetent staff and poor supervision on the service.
Writes that alderman Eric Wiebes of the Amsterdam municipal council about the current situation in the municipal ict-department. The Amsterdam service, which in February under a guardianship order was made, deliver this year a disappointment at potentially over 40 million euros as a result of the chaos in the service, according to the VVD alderman. This is the plan, in which the entire ict department of the municipality on the kick must be delayed to run until after 2014 to be implemented, reports The Parool. In addition to facing the ICT Department with a budget deficit, making the setbacks a further 5 million euros to possibly even be a 14.3 million euro increase.
Alderman Wiebes writes that the image at the municipal ict-department of the ‘drama’ is: “A quarter century of neglect, you will solve not in a year. We need the base from the ground up rebuild. That is shocking.” Not only would a part of the workforce are inadequate, also lacked the management and financial review. Furthermore, it would absenteeism in the municipal service are high.
Wiebes says that the legacy systems a lot of failures to deliver on the municipal networks of chain reactions. Such disturbances were more common during the first implementation of the improvement programme. It was decided to temporarily halt.