EDS scoops £4bn MoD outsourcing contract

[DimPrawn]

http://management.silicon.com/govern...9128279,00.htm

The EDS-led Atlas consortium has won the £4bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) outsourcing contract, one of the biggest outsourcing deals ever.

The Atlas consortium beat off the CSC-led Radii grouping. The latter comprised three well-known IT companies - BT and Thales as well as CSC - versus the six partners working with EDS.

Speaking at a press conference held at MoD headquarters in London today, a senior MoD official said the department is confident all the companies in the Atlas consortium will perform well. Besides EDS, Atlas includes Cogent, Fujitsu Services, General Dynamics and LogicaCMG as well as HP and IBM who were at one stage in separate competing consortia.

Well-documented failings by EDS at the Inland Revenue and Department for Work and Pensions meant that until recently Radii had been many industry watchers' favourite to win the giant DII contract. However, the MoD spokesman said due diligence had been done at reference sites at home and overseas and the department is confident past mistakes won't be repeated.



Oh Dear!

More jobs for Indian IT staff. More tax to pay for the cock-ups to come.

Feck me. I wonder how much this consortium of motley cowboys had to "donate" to the New Lie to win this one?

[DimPrawn]

That's £4,000,000,000 of taxpayers money down the pan.......

and not a single comment.......

[malvolio]

I can't possibly comment. I was in on the Service Delivery Design for MOD and expressed serious concerns about governance plans. They've gone ahead with so many flaws... but it's classified so I can't talk about it!

[expat]

I do not believe it

[Rebecca Loos]

hohohohohohohoho EDS and Logica together, now that should be a laugh... Now they just need Capita to run it on the ground and Accidenture to manage it top level and we could be talking about the fastest way ever to burn £4bn!!!

[ratewhore]

this was announced over 6 months ago...

[DimPrawn]

Yes, I missed it.

Thought it was worth highlighting in the interests of "fairness" to the tax-payers here (and Ms Loos).

[dazza12]

this was announced over 6 months ago...

In fact, I think it was announced that EDS had it well before the tender was made public. At least Blair and Co and the directors of EDS knew anyway. I think it was in the exchange of envelopes. Used, non sequential notes.

Only Liebour could reward a company that has failed on almost every government contract they have had.

[messiah]

god help us.

[threaded]

In Denmark one of the political parties wants to disband the army, navy, airforce etc. and replace them with an answering machine saying "We surrender".

Somehow, methinks, that after blowing 4bn on yet another EDS fsck up the UK won't even have the answering machine...