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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. In a nutshell, shared services are about the... [20 Jun 2007]
Securing the Financial Services Firm With Essential Taceo
White Paper Essential Taceo for the SMB Financial Services firm ameliorates much of the mammoth costs associated with safeguarding the clientele's Personal Financial Information (PFI) and being industry compliant. [14 Sep 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. More immediate targets include a move to complete electronic services as part of the strategy to reduce the cost of processing CRB... [23 May 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 May 2002 but faults... [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. Photo credit: Siemens Business Services [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 PFI deal has been won by a Fluor-led... [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 terms of the PFI contract as... [22 Jun 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 Siemens Business Services... [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 under a PFI deal. [22 Jun 2004]
Spooks roasted over £450m cost of moving spy systems
News Management had focused entirely on the PFI building and associated services and failed to look at it strategically as a move of GCHQ's complete business. As a result, management had focused entirely on the PFI building and associated services and... [16 Jul 2003]
5 years ago... Delays hit £70m Siemens immigration database
News 15.07.98 Siemens Business Services (SBS) admitted today for the first time that its £70m Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme to supply an immigration caseworking database to the Home Office is running at least six months late. [15 Jul 2003]
Capita hit with £1.8m penalty for delays to criminal records IT system
News There have been problems with the troubled £400m private finance initiative (PFI) CRB contract since its launch last year with massive backlogs delaying checks on employees who would be working with potentially vulnerable adults or children for... [21 May 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Who’ll do the dirty work?
Comment The problem has been especially acute with PFI projects, the initiative that is supposed to see the private sector shoulder the risks of tricky development and deployment projects. One is that PFI does not genuinely transfer risk, it merely... [10 Feb 2003]
Taxman tears up the rulebook to award IT upgrade
News It points to a number of stark lessons for the future of PFI contracts. On the Spot: John Yard, director of business services, Inland Revenue http://www.silicon.com/a48966 The Inland Revenue has bent the law by awarding a multi-million pound deal... [14 Nov 2001]
ICL ducks out of £40m Post Office contract
News These will be complete solutions on a PFI scale, which will include equipment, services, maintenance and training," the spokesman told silicon.com. He added that ICL is working with the Post Office on a range of bespoke solutions for electronic... [04 Apr 2001]
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