BT to sue council over "unlawful" contract termination

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Essex County Council IT to be brought back in-house after scrapping outsourcing deal

BT says it will sue BT says it is suing Essex County Council after the supplier claimed that the local authority terminated its IT outsourcing contract illegally. Essex brought in BT four yea...

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