Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute
The UK government agreed to pay Atos £24 million in an out-of-court settlement following a challenge to its decision to award an £854 million Met Office supercomputer contract to Microsoft.
The the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Met Office entered into a settlement agreement with the French IT supplier and agreed to a joint payment of £24 million"without admission of liability," according to the department'sThe central government department agreed to contribute £20.7 million to this settlement with the balance of £3.3 million being paid by the Met Office.
BEIS and the Met Office said Atos's bid was non-compliant with the stated requirements and gave it a score of 0/5 in each of three categories on the basis that the proposed development supercomputer system was"not architecturally equivalent to the main supercomputer system." It was claimed to have used different processors.
Atos, for its part, claimed the government had made"manifest errors" in the evaluation of its tender. It also said the two bodies made the decision based on"undisclosed requirements" or that BEIS and the Met Office had"interpreted the requirement of architectural equivalence in a way which would not be transparent" to Atos.
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