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Mamdani's Anti-DOGE City Savings Plan Includes Firing McKinsey, Not Hiring Them
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I’m surprised NYC outsourced its entire IT. If it were a town of 25k that might make sense, but not one of the largest governments in the world.
They are big enough to hire OS devs and run their own Linux distro
It's not entirely outsourced by any means. There is a lot of it. The article is discussing one department that was outsourced, many others are not.
Regarding running their own Linux distro, that probably would be neither cheap or really helpful (which of their vendors would support that vs. some other distro in practice?) but yes, there is a sizeable IT footprint required for such a large place.
Dealing with government contracts, a lot of governments prefer to outsource some activities when the private market can provide these services. The idea is that it makes it easier to fire individual non-performers.
The real idea is that it shift liability for issues from the politicians to private companies who aren't beholden to anyone.
Not really. Politicians have a lot of control over those contacts and they are written to benefit the government.
Of course they do but reality shows us that they point the finger at the company and the media goes along with it. There always needs to be the facade of plausible deniability.