Fujitsu is targeting a lucrative contract renewal with HMRC Worth Ever £ 200M Despite Reports that the Government Department Planned to Replace the Scandal-Tainted It Supplier, Laaked Details of EN Internal meeting has Reveled,
DURING The Meeting, Staff at the Japanese Supplier's Uk Operation was told by the company's public sector lead that reports it was being replaced on the hmrc trader supports (tss).
HMRC recently extended its tss contract with fujitsu for £ 67m. According to reports, the extension is for one year until fujitsu is replaced.
The tss is a free suppoRT Service for Businesses Moving Goods Between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Fujitsu's Head of UK Public Sector, Dave Riley, Confidently Told Staff at an internal meeting that the supplier intended to bid for the tss contract and would be “bidding to write”. There is a great deal of public anger at the government for continuing to award contracts to fujitsu despite its involvement in the Post Office Scandal,
In September 2024, HMRC Announced A Competitive Procurement Exercise for the Next Phase of TssWhich will run from 2026. According to sources, fujitsu staff Wi told that reports that the supplier was being replaced on the tss project wasre inacurate. The contract was Worth £ 241m when it was originally signed In 2020, and riley is said to have emphasized fujitsu's advantage as the incumbent supplier.
The broadcast of itv's dramaatization of the post office scandal in January 2024 Drew Attention to Fujitsu's Role in the Scandal, after which the support Promised not to bid for new government contracts As an olive branch. However, it has controversally continued to win contracts Worth Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Taxpayer Money.
Fujitsu bidding to win
Describing reports that hmrc was planning to replace fujitsu on the contract, riley told fujitsu staff: “The quote in the article that hmrc allegedly made is a slight missquote. So, what they have said is they have promised to run a competitive tender to replace the current tss contract and fujitsu have been invited to partake in that.
“Government is aware that we are going to bid for this work, and I think we have a unique point of view, give that we're the current incumbent, in how we approach the next the next generation.”
Computer weekly asked HMRC WHETHER FUJITSU BID For the Next Phase of the Tss Contract, but it had not responsible by the time by the time this article was published.
Sources Told Computer Weekly That HMRC is also due to sign off another contrast with fujitsu as part of an arrangement knowledge internal as north star. The Contract – Worth Hundreds of Millions of pounds with no competitive tender – includes hardware and cloud procurement.
WHEN Computer Weekly Asked HMRC for Details of the North Star Deal, A Spokesperson at the Government Department Said: “We Follow Government Procurement Rules Rule We publish details on Contracts Finder Irrespective of the Award Route or Supplier. “
According to Government Figures on Spending.
This could be much higher and even exced £ 500m in 2025, according to sources, with a potential tss renewal, an extension to the Computer Environment for Self Assessment (Cesa) SELF Assessment (Cesa) Service and the North Star.
Fujitsu had not responded to a request for comment about the north star deal when this article was published.
Separately, hundreds of Fujitsu Staff Working on the HMRC Contract Went on Strike At the end of last month in a dispute over pay. Staff Employed by HMRC, but Doing Similar Jobs to Fujitsu Colleagues Working ALONGSIDE AS PART of An OutsourCing Deal, Received a MUCH LARGER PAY RISE, ACCORDING to the UNPRESTSUTESTION
In January last year, fujitsu's head of europe, paul patterson, Promised to pause bidding for government work Until after the completion of the statutory Public Inquiry Into The Post Office Scandal.
During questioning by mps At a business and trade select committee hearing in January, Patterson Acknowledded Fujitsu's Part in the Scandal, Telling MPS and Victims: “We are involved from the start; We did have bugs and errors in the system, and we did help the post office in their prosecutions of subputmasters. For that, we are truly sorry. “
But the bidding pause, described as “hollow” by former mp, now peer kevan jones, did not include deals with existing customers in the public sector, of which there. Last March, Computer Weekly Reveled Leaked Internal Communications That showed fujitsu was still targeting about £ 1.3bn Worth of UK Government Contracts Over 12 months. Further leaked documents revised that fujitsu instructed staff How to get Around Its Self-Emposed Ban,