Quote Originally Posted by BillyCasper View Post
Unfortunately, I'm not sure they had much choice. I suspect Tata, IBM, Capgemini, Cognizant, Infosys, Fujitsu have many clients by the balls where they have developed and operate, maintain and enhance customer's bespoke strategic mission critical systems.
I came here to say similar. Just a contract extension. Add Airwave/Motorola to that mob. The list of IT projects that are ruinously expensive to extricate from is endless!

The bit that does annoy me greatly however is Fujitsu still being awarded new, unrelated contracts elsewhere in the public and pseudo public sector realm. I'll bet my last pound the PQQ process was used to disqualify some innovative but small, aspiring UK business or consortium that couldn't jump through the (often) artificial hoops they demand. It smells when word is that Fujitsu staff were culpable.