{"id":3235,"date":"2011-09-19T22:50:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:16:28","slug":"department-for-communities-and-local-government-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Department for Communities and Local Government &#8211; UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Department for Communities and Local Government <\/strong>&#8211; UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project :<\/strong> FiReControl<br \/>\n<strong>Project type<\/strong> :\u00a0Integration of emergency services dispatch centres<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> Sep 2011<strong> Cost : <\/strong>\u00a3460 GBP<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nEfforts to integrate 46 regional emergency response control rooms with 8 integrated centres is abandoned after 6 years of effort and \u00a3460 GBP ($727) is spent. \u00a0Although construction of the physical buildings is completed the supporting systems to operate the system fail to materialize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong><br \/>\nPoor coordination between affected stakeholders. \u00a0Failure to build support from key stakeholder. \u00a0Lack of due diligence in establishing costs and risks. \u00a0Lack of accountability. \u00a0Failure of oversight (the project continued moving forward despite clearly apparent problems).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-14974552\" target=\"_blank\">Failed fire project wasted \u00a3469m says committee of MPs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FiReControl\" target=\"_blank\">FiReControl &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Department for Communities and Local Government &#8211; UK Project : FiReControl Project type :\u00a0Integration of emergency services dispatch centres Date : Sep 2011 Cost : \u00a3460 GBP Synopsis : Efforts to integrate 46 regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7788,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}