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Save taxpayer money today by outsourcing to a vendor that might have a problem, but really isn’t your “fault” per se. OR spend a lot of taxpayer money running your own system; which if there is a problem is very much your “fault”.

I don’t agree with the outcome, but the logic isn’t hard to follow.

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How is outsourcing a cost saving? You have to pay for the shit, you make it sound like its somehow free. Logic does not checkout.

SUM(O365 license cost) < SUM(Salary + Hardware cost)

Well, the hardware isn’t actually too severe as it’s paid upfront for very long time periods. The real cost isn’t even the salary. One system professional might be 150k, so let’s say employees are going to cost 500k for the system. I imagine that the annual cost for 365 for a single governmental department would be $2 million or more. I think that the biggest cost would be the transition and potential data loss.

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