[USNBandit]

Hey, didn't EDS lose $1.6 Billion last year on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet? You would think that a company could make money on the biggest IT contract in history....unless they overdid an underbid.

[lelio]

Hey, didn't EDS lose $1.6 Billion last year on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet? You would think that a company could make money on the biggest IT contract in history....unless they overdid an underbid.

An interesting writeup of this was in a recent Wall Street Journal. In a nutshell: there were no controls on the contract.

For example, the Navy ordered desktops for some people. Well the individuals that would of received them said that they wanted laptops. However EDS already ordered the desktop and configured it. EDS pretty much had to eat that and order a laptop. Do that enought times and you have a warehouse full of desktops that can't be unloaded.

There were other logastical problems too, like EDS contractors being denied entry onto a military base as they lacked credentials. While that's not a major obsticle, its another sign that there was a lack of attention to detail.