In a recent paper, the Cabinet Office has published guidance to help Government procurers consider supplier proposals called: “Government ICT Offshoring (International Sourcing) Guidance” (PDF).
This paper is targeted at Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Senior
Information Risk Owners (SIROs), Senior Responsible Owners (SROs) and
procurers in Government Departments and exchequer funded bodies, to help
themmull over supplier proposals which include offshore provision and
which may offer value for money.
The guidance is focused primarily on situations in which suppliers of a
procured service would wish to use offshore capability to deliver some
or all of the service in question. It is not intended to deal with
proposals to relocate inhouse services.
The document says,
"Arguably, jobs which are lost in the short term are often gained back
as a result of a growing economy. So the medium long-run impact on UK
employment is likely to be far less severe than the number of jobs
apparently lost."
"Indeed, the net long-term impact might be for UK employment to rise
as a result of the efficiency gains if the reallocation leads to higher
growth as people/firms move into higher value-added activities."And... "...offshoring can create IT jobs in highly skilled areas such
as requirements specification, security, architecture and commercial
management".
And the paper numbers showing that a senior software engineer in the UK
earns on average £38,750, compared with an average annual wage of
£9,703 for an equivalent post in the top five offshoring destinations of
India, China, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
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