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Leader: EDS back in spotlight with £4bn MoD deal
Leader Certainly the tough penalties and service level agreements imposed by the MoD proved too much for two other consortia - most notably one led by Lockheed Martin, which said it could not justify it commercially to its shareholders and dropped out. [02 Mar 2005]
Update: EDS scoops £4bn MoD outsourcing contract
News 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. The fact that the two remaining consortia bids were both solid was emphasised by... [02 Mar 2005]
D-day looms for £4bn defence IT contract
News Two consortia are bidding for the lucrative deal. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will take delivery of the "best and final" bids for its £4bn 10-year IT outsourcing deal on Friday. The lengthy procurement process for the armed forces' Defence... [25 Nov 2004]
EDS pledges £600m savings in MoD personnel deal
News The bidding process for the huge DII contract is in the home straight with just two major consortia left. EDS has extended a personnel deal it has with the armed forces in the UK, an announcement that may bode well for the upcoming Ministry of... [28 Oct 2004]
£4bn MoD deal down to two bidders
News Two consortia have made today's deadline for bids for the tough 10-year, £4bn MoD DII (Defence Information Infrastructure) contract. The winner will face the challenge of connecting around 300,000 users and 100 or so computer systems, managing the... [05 Apr 2004]
IBM out of £4bn MoD contract race
News We begin the negotiation phase with the three remaining consortia which commences on 19 January and is expected to last about three months," she said. IBM has been dropped by the Ministry of Defence in the bidding for its £4bn 10-year outsourcing... [17 Dec 2003]
IT outsourcing: The times they are a-changing
Comment The days of the single vendor winning the billion pound mega-deals are pretty much over, with consortia of specialist service providers opting to share the risk and rewards of the big deals still out there. [15 Jul 2003]
MoD's DII - another day in outsourcing for CSC, BT and co
News We believe that the current decade will be seen to belong to the consortia. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is to lead a consortium of providers bidding for the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) £300m-a-year public private partnership (PPP) IT... [20 May 2003]
