[dazc]

I often wonder why so many Local Authorities and Gov Departments have to have their own unique web portals?

There must be a massive cost-saving opportunity here.

[doublesocket]

Absolutely, there's massive duplication of functionality. I think it's partly incompetence and partly a control thing.

[chinabot]

All a control thing, incompetence is just a side effect.

[hooverd]

Well, they probably want to be able to update them as things change without waiting so many weeks on a ticket to central IT. I can't imagine they're doing anything unique though, so the best of both worlds could be central IT providing tools and managed hosting.