2.6m spent on making a press room

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/no-...

Ridiculous waste of tax payers money or do we definitely need a white house style daily press briefing?

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33 grand on broadband equipment.

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EVLATECOMER said:

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

Why didn't they go on Go Compare and get a better deal? Oh yes it's the comms centre for the government of the 5th richest economy in the world.

Can't believe posters and the BBC ares seriously playing this off against the NHS pay proposals.

I know right? There are so many more areas where money has been er.. invested to choose from

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dvs_dave said:

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

FFS....clearly you have no idea how much commercial grade network gear costs. 33 grand is literally fk all.

Nah mate a router is 50 quid on Amazon and "commercial grade" whatever that is well let's say that's a router with 4 aerials on it, those are about 150 quid. Broadband is about 25 a month but I bet their have fibre they're so maybe 50 a month for good stuff like ADSL.

So all in all about 200 quid for the lot and that's commercial grade so yeah in your potty language it's fk all. If you think 33 grand is okay then mate, you're overcharging your clients and you should easily be able to get yourself a government contract.

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Wait until you find out how much the refurbishments are costing...

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Even though I am sometimes involved in this type of 'public sector' work, I still struggle to comprehend the money involved.

Last year, one of my jobs was 2 or 3 hours a week project managing some (very) minor works in a hospital. There were a few fixtures and fittings to change, new floor coverings, one partition wall removed, some paint/decoration, and two new air con units were fitted.

It cost £297k for the work.

If a local builder was allowed to do it, and there didn't have to be dozens of NHS people involved in 'overseeing it', then I could have got it done for £25k.