Saturday, May 28, 2011
SAIC Jelly Bean, How Many SAIC Managers Staff To be indicted? Rewind Someone Thinking Outl Loud?
According to "reliable" ex-SAIC consultants: 1. CityTime project had an internal training department that provided end-user material on a CD and was approved by OPA staff. "The CD had enough information to train a person of the street and allow them to enter basic time without much effort". At least two ex-SAIC/Technodyne consultants worked on the documentation. 2. SAIC had developed in detail a CityTime disaster recovery plan; 3. Most likely what is missing in my opinion is the critical piece: detailed system design and program documentaion required by other vendors to take over the project without SAIC/Technodyne consultants involvement. How good/detailed existing documentation is a question mark and only an independent audit will reveal. For a $700 - $800 million project, one would expect at the least a few binders of documentation covering the final project plan, system documentation, program documentation, test plans, disaster recovery plan, and above all user manu
SAIC hired incompetent people just the same and there are current and former SAIC consultants/FTE willing to come forward and testify. In one instance, between 2005 - 2006, SAIC decided to perform exactly the same functions SPHERION was bought in to do by hiring its own "mini" QA staff only to see the effort fail after one/two years. The SAIC consultants time was charged to the City of New York @ the rate of $100/hr - $150/hr and the task was eventually given back to Spherion whose two consultants in the meantime were found sitting "idle" billing the city their own rate @ $100/hr - $125/hr. In effect, the City was being charged "double" for the same task. Mazer and Berger took advantage of the "chaos" and eventually replaced Spherion and SAIC consultants with at least four (4) DA Solutions staff - the company operated by Mazer's uncle. Mazer + Berger + Bondy + AT LEAST four (5) SAIC senior managers are to blame for the failure. The fraud/abuse/waste of taxpayers money durin
SAIC hired incompetent people just the same and there are current and former SAIC consultants/FTE willing to come forward and testify. In one instance, between 2005 - 2006, SAIC decided to perform exactly the same functions SPHERION was bought in to do by hiring its own "mini" QA staff only to see the effort fail after one/two years. The SAIC consultants time was charged to the City of New York @ the rate of $100/hr - $150/hr and the task was eventually given back to Spherion whose two consultants in the meantime were found sitting "idle" billing the city their own rate @ $100/hr - $125/hr. In effect, the City was being charged "double" for the same task. Mazer and Berger took advantage of the "chaos" and eventually replaced Spherion and SAIC consultants with at least four (4) DA Solutions staff - the company operated by Mazer's uncle. Mazer + Berger + Bondy + AT LEAST four (5) SAIC senior managers are to blame for the failure. The fraud/abuse/waste of taxpayers money durin