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UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn (www.ft.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (7 children)

New contract

The government department handed Fujitsu a contract worth £9.6mn for procurement of hardware equipment and a separate £15mn contract for continued provision of law enforcement software services, according to government data published last month and in November. The decision to award the contracts, worth a combined £24.6mn and starting in October, came after prominent Labour MPs joined other politicians last year in calling for the Japanese technology company to be barred from receiving state contracts because of its role in the Horizon scandal.

Same old company

More than 900 Post Office branch managers were convicted between 1999 and 2015 in cases involving faulty data from the Horizon accounting software developed by Fujitsu.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Wasn't it moreso the post office lying about the software instead of Fujitsu itself?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes but there is this as well:

In January last year, Fujitsu said it was voluntarily not going to bid for government contracts until the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal ended, apart from in cases of “existing customer relationships or an agreed need for Fujitsu skills and capability”.

[–] MonsterMonster 7 points 5 days ago

It would seem that Fujitsu doesn't need to bid as it's being handed the contract on a plate.

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