Make Gateway reviews public to improve success rate of government IT projects

摘要

In February 2002, a secret Gateway review of a huge IT project at the Criminal Records Bureau found all was not well - a month before systems were due to go live. The supplier Capita had won its largest ever contract, worth ￡400m over 10 years, to develop and run systems for the bureau. As a result of a "Gateway 4" review in July 2001, the bureau had deferred the go-live date to allow more time for testing.