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£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. A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing yesterday saw Conservative MP Richard Bacon quiz Department for... [22 Jun 2006]
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]
Leader: Criminal record system highlights fatal government flaws
Leader The familiar failings were that it was based on the controversial PFI arrangement (which has now thankfully been banned for IT projects by the Treasury); that the system was planned on ‘wishful thinking’ rather than thorough research; the... [13 Feb 2004]
MPs slam 'appalling' £400m criminal-background vetting system
News The £400m PFI Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) for vetting staff who work with children and vulnerable adults was so "appallingly planned" that it went live despite concerns the system was not ready, resulting in a backlog of delays in vital... [12 Feb 2004]
"Disastrous" £400m courts IT project slammed by MPs
News The 10-year deal for the Libra system across 300 magistrates courts was initially signed with sole bidder ICL, now Fujitsu Services, back in 1998 for £184m under the private finance initiative (PFI) framework. [11 Nov 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]
PFI fails to deliver
News The PFI project for the revised National Insurance Recording System (NIRS2) - originally expected to be finished by February 1997 - is still not fully operational. The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts (PAC) has severely criticised all... [12 Jul 1999]
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