09 Jan 1999
ICL and Unisys this week announced a #183 million outsourcing deal with the magistrates courts in England and Wales - 50% higher than the planned bid from defeated rival EDS writes Dan Sabbagh.
The ICL/Unisys group will develop a 10,000 seat desktop administrative environment for 500 courthouses and offices, based around Windows NT, Exchange and the Oracle database.
It will replace three incompatible systems, which date back to the 1970s.
Rival bidder EDS pulled out of the tender last May, and subsequently said the company would have bid #120 million. EDS's bid did not conform to the existing specification, which it understood was optional, but which later became a requirement.
The Lord Chancellor's Department, which awarded the contract, said: 'We're confident we've got value for money. We didn't receive a bid from EDS; any bid figure is speculative.'
Four hundred staff are expected to transfer.
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