[GrantZvolsky]

GDS[1] and HMRC[2] don't have much in common besides the fact that HMRC uses GDS's design system.

[1]: https://github.com/alphagov [2]: https://github.com/hmrc

[OJFord]

I don't work (and never have) in the public sector, but my understanding was that that's essentially true of any department; that GDS operated like a sort of slightly dictatorial contractor that also provides some common infrastructure and design system etc.?

Happy to be corrected, for the purpose of this thread though it was the design system I'm talking about anyway really though.

[GrantZvolsky]

It seems that technology-wise, there is more proximity between GDS and the other departments, which is what I was alluding to. This is based on my observation of the various github repositories, with no insight into how the work is organized.