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Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet In addition, outsourcing megadeals - contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to deliver a range of services over multiple years - have also enjoyed something of a comeback recently, as shown by the likes of BT's... [11 Sep 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News To do this, the review recommends halting and renegotiating contracts with the NHS' two remaining keys suppliers, BT and CSC, who are overseeing the implementation of new patients administration systems... [10 Aug 2009]
Virtualisation and cloud: The new weapons in the outsourcing arms race
News According to research by analyst Ovum, sectors including financial services, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, retail and travel are showing active interest in IT outsourcing, pointing to recent £20m-plus deals between IBM and the... [14 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News National Identity Scheme contractors also include CSC, which has a contract to upgrade UK passport application systems. On Friday, the party said that it would take a close look at all ID card-related... [13 Jul 2009]
Diageo drinks to $35m outsourcing deals
News Drinks giant Diageo has signed two outsourcing contracts worth $35m with services company CSC. The first contract, worth $7m, will see CSC design and install a new supply chain... [18 Jun 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News Grayling's letter referred to two ID scheme-related contracts: one given to CSC to upgrade passport application systems, and another given to IBM to supply the biometric database. CSC... [18 Jun 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The Application and Enrolment contract to replace the UK's current passport-application processing system, which is about to come to the end of its life, was awarded to CSC. IPS issued two contracts in... [12 Jun 2009]
Nuclear authority picks CSC for £31m deals
News Under its outsourcing contracts with CSC, the UKAEA's IT team of around 40 will transfer to CSC. CSC has landed six new deals worth £31m with the Civil Nuclear Police... [12 Jun 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News IBM and CSC have been awarded contracts to run some of the technology behind the government's ID cards and passports schemes. The Home Office also announced on Tuesday that systems integrator... [08 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) scheme currently has just two local suppliers, BT Global Services (BTGS) and CSC, and has been recently dogged by suggestions the former was looking to pull out of its involvement... [06 Apr 2009]
Downturn prompts biz to offload hardware
News It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise, then, that the big boys in the sector, like IBM, Accenture, HP/EDS, CSC, et al are going to have graze further afield for the next meal, and this will not be good news for... [22 Jan 2009]
ID card contract shortlist gets shorter
News CSC, Fujitsu and IBM meanwhile have been chosen to take part in further talks for the £500m contract to deliver the application and enrolment programme, which will replace the current passport application system. [16 Sep 2008]
Transport for London in outsourcing shake-up
News Currently TfL outsources its desktop management to CSC and network management to Fujitsu Services, with other suppliers, such as BT, doing smaller pieces. Most of TfL's outsourcing contracts were signed... [30 Jul 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, and Thales made the shortlist to win the five parts of the single "framework contract", including a £500m deal to replace the existing passport application system, the £500m biometric fingerprint... [23 May 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News Their withdrawal leaves only six major suppliers CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, Steria and Thales in the running to be chosen to tender for the contracts in March. Two major IT suppliers have pulled out of the... [25 Jan 2008]