JThe UNE 24 2025 was the red letter for Fujitsu, a Japanese technological company. Conquering two government contracts worth almost 300 million pounds would be a reason for celebration for almost any company.
The problem, only two weeks later, Fujitsui’s name was (justified) dragged through mud because of his role in Mail Horizon IT ScandalWhich led to some really terrible human suffering and one of the greatest abortions of justice in British history.
Some victims of Fujitsu systems, which led to false shortcomings in the accounts (among other things), are financially ruined. Some were wrongly convicted of fraud and closed. Part of Cheese Wyn Williams’ Report in Affair He also discovered that there was a “real possibility” pain inflicted affair Related to 13 suicides.
One Former Subpostmistress told this newspaper To be 14., that she was not pregnant while in prison for crime just didn’t commit.
Should be suspected to be consequences for those discovered to be guilty. However, the company created by the system – and that employed the people who knew that there were questions in 1999. years – two many many of the Government’s work was still assigned just a few weeks before the first volume of reports in the affair. Begging the belief.
But wait, I hear you say, aren’t you Fujitsu promises not to offer new government contracts Until after report in January 2024. years? Well yes, that’s. But here’s things. It was cut. The pledge did not refer to existing contracts, expanding existing contracts or new work in which its involvement was asked.
These cuts explain the results I received when I turned into a fairly useful website called Bidstats, a browser for government contracts and tenders designed for those interested in competition.
When I was looking for Fujitsu Contracts During the last year I found 27 entries. Several of them are a double number: sometimes there was entry for the tender and the contract. But even if you omit those, there were still more than 20 entries, including a dizzying series of government departments, overgrown administrations, square and other public bodies.
These include the parent office, the Ministry of Defense, Health and Social Protection Department, Social Insurance Scotland, Northern Ireland Departments for Finance, Foreign Office and the British Council. Some of the contracts I watched extend for the next three years. You and I will be Contribution to Fujitsu profit For a long time.
Really astonishing revelation is to post office shells up to 72m pounds to extend the service of the Horizon service From 1. April 2025 to 31. March.
Mail told me that “simply couldn’t turn off the horizon overnight and get a new system and run the next day.” “We were trying to get out of the horizon / Fujitsu for a few years,” I was told.
But another relevant question is this: Why does Fujitsu still earn money from the horizon? The company says it is in discussions about Contributes to a huge account for compensation Yes Taxpayer – No one connected with a scandal – must shoulder. Let me be very clear, I don’t quarrel against payments. Far from it. People who suffer so terribly deserve every last pennies. The government should draw their finger to ensure they are paid.
But while discussions are being treated, it should not cover the job required to delay the mail from your PRO BONO system until it can be found and installed on the appropriate replacement Mail for 11,000 plus mail 11,000 plus? I believe you should.
I am a similar answer to that mail from HM income and customs, regarding the contract worth £ 300 million to which I was referred to in the beginning. Here is: “This extension will be a limited time on strict conditions for the protection of basic HMRC services.”
But then the plight is right. It was also A contract of 125m pounds “To deliver modern digitally enabled ICT solutions that will support the transformation of land registration services” awarded northern Ireland Finance Department. It’s a new job, no Extension. Fujitsu says it is because it is appointed as “preferred bidder” before his promise (a promise that seems to have me more holes in it from Swiss cheese).
The cabinet, which is the front and center on that, said, “We must be clear that they are responsible for the scandal with the horizon.
It’s pretty much better than Thite Message General Macha Machomas-Symonds, when he was questioned on Fujitsu Contract by LBC, earlier this week: “As far as Fujitsu is the issue of procurement,” he said. “These things are very carefully viewed. We must – procurement has a certain legal framework around it.”
Here is a problem: moving from one IT platform to another is complex and expensive, and also risky. We all know What happened when TSB tried to switch Of the IT platform provided by the previous owner, Lloyds Banking Group, on one managed by Sabadell after the Spanish Bank took over the bank in the UK. Chaos was created, with the words of angry customers who are renewed in branches after they were locked from their accounts.
However, given the shortcomings of the horizon – and in particular the way this affair was taken all those interested without mentioning damage – it is simply invariably that Fujitsu continues to pick up the prizes for more million pounds. It does not matter that these are (mainly) extensions designed to ensure “continuity of the service”.
The government must be emphasized. It should also be affected by whether a good idea will become so deeply rely on the company that the divorce seems to be terribly difficult – if not impossible.