Fujitsu has bagged £142M UK government work since Horizon inquiry announced
The UK Post Office’s latest decision to extend Fujitsu’s controversial £2.3 billion Horizon contract follows the award of £142 million in wider government work to the Japanese supplier since the statutory inquiry into the disastrous project was first announced.
“The program to transfer the services to a new cloud provider created fundamental technical challenges that [the Post Office] could not economically and technically overcome, and the business has taken the decision to pivot back to the Fujitsu provided Horizon Data Centres until the successful transfer of services out of Horizon and into its replacement New Branch IT,” a tenderFaults in the Horizon system, first implemented in the 1990s, led to hundreds of false prosecutions carried out by...
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