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From army officer to IT chief - CPS CIO David Jones
Comment Information sharing is also front of mind as the CPS considers the fate of the 10-year PFI (private finance initiative) that gave rise to the Compass case management system now used by the organisation to process more... [08 Apr 2009]
New hospitals award £68m voice and data contract
News A £361m PFI joint venture to build the hospitals, headed up by John Laing, has awarded the £67.6m contract over 37 years to systems integrator Affiniti.silicon.com Public Sector University Hospital of North Staffordshire... [26 Jun 2007]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment Well, news broke earlier this year that private companies stand to reap profits of £3.3bn from the government's controversial PFI initiatives, which understandably got the hackles of taxpayers up. Addleshaw Goddard's... [20 Jun 2007]
£500m Libra courts IT project fiasco
News The original cost of the project - awarded to ICL, now Fujitsu Services, as a 10-year PFI deal starting back in 1998 - was £184m. The cost of Libra, the project to modernise the IT used by the UK's magistrates' courts,... [22 Jun 2006]
7/7 bomb rescue efforts hampered by communication failings
News The report said the 20-year timeframe for the completion of TfL's £2bn PFI project for the rollout of a digital radio system underground on the tube needs to be "significantly reduced" and a feasibility study undertaken... [05 Jun 2006]
ID cards to be used for criminal record checks
News Some of these developments will require changes to the CRB's £400m PFI contract with Capita, which runs until 2012. The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has outlined initial plans for integrating ID cards into the criminal... [23 May 2006]
PFI projects on the up
News The number of private finance initiative (PFI) contracts signed in the UK - many for large projects with IT at their core - is set to increase. Research out from IFSL (formerly British Invisibles) shows that by the end... [24 Apr 2006]
Delayed national MOT database finally completed
News The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) awarded the 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) contract to Siemens Business Services (SBS) back in 2000 with the aim of rolling out the system to garages from... [07 Apr 2006]
Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars
Photo The 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) contract was awarded by the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (Vosa) to Siemens Business Services (SBS) in 2000. The MOT computerisation project is the single biggest... [07 Apr 2006]
UK motorways to get £490m PFI telecoms upgrade
News The Highways Agency (HA) has signed a £490m private finance initiative (PFI) deal to upgrade the telecommunications network that links all the information systems across the UK road network. The single national... [19 Sep 2005]
MOT computerisation PFI project delayed again
News The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) awarded the 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) computerisation contract to Siemens Business Services back in 2000. Tait said SBS' costs had increased under the... [22 Jun 2005]
Computer glitch crashes Tube's Oyster card network
News Oyster cards were introduced in 2003 with the £1.2bn PFI contract going to the EDS-led Transys consortium, which also includes Cubic Transportation Systems. London Underground is investigating the cause of a computer... [10 Mar 2005]
Atos Orgin gets nod for £200m immigration IT deal
News SBS has had a somewhat patchy record with the IND and the government laid the blame for a backlog of visa applications on the German company's problems implementing a £77m PFI casework system. The Home Office has ditched... [10 Aug 2004]
MPs hammer Customs for failure to control IT spending
News It is also committed to spend an additional £250m enhancing its IT infrastructure under a PFI contract with Fujitsu. The department's IT structure was taken over by then national champion computer company ICL in 2000... [22 Jun 2004]
Met Office unveils new supercomputers
News Work on the office's new headquarters in Exeter began in 2001, in a PFI deal worth £150m over 17 years. The Meteorological Office today showed off its shiny new supercomputers and headquarters to celebrate its 150th... [21 Jun 2004]
