Who will accept ID cards?

[Roger Hird]

In article <4A760A7B.3020301 at iosis.co.uk>,
   Peter Tomlinson <pwt at iosis.co.uk> wrote:
> (I was an attendee at the DfT group when HO person arrived with PA
> Consultants person, and quietly the PA person admitted to me that there
> was no smart card technology expert in their group - more recently PA
> has told me, in a different context, that they are management
> consultants, not technical, and they don't subcontract so as to be able
> to handle technical stuff).

It is some years since I was involved with using PA - and I guess what you
get from them is what you specify in the contract - but certainly when
dealing with them they did have the tech capability to handle pretty
clever things or could recruit/sub contract to bring capability in - but I
guess if the HO thought they could do it themselves they wouldn't include
that in the PA contract.  Having said that, at their best PA, unlike most
other consultants, would walk away from jobs that clearly weren't
appropriately technically supported - knowing that they would get the
blame when things went wrong.

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Roger Hird
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Website: http://roger.hird.orpheusweb.co.uk