By Sarah Left, 29 October 1999 00:20
NEWS The French government has awarded the first contract of its Accord Mission - a project to integrate computing across all state departments. The first project will see 15 ministries install an accountancy package from Peoplesoft, in conjunction with Sequent and French systems integrator, Steria. The three companies beat off competition from SAP with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Oracle with Cap Gemini. The government declined to put a value to the contract, but Peoplesoft claims it is one of the two biggest IT contracts awarded in France this year. Two French ministries will begin a trial of the system soon. At the moment, all the ministries operate different accountancy systems. Peoplesoft says it's the first time the French government has invested in ERP. The ERP vendor claims the French government is now looking for a human resources system and says it intends to put in a bid.
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