21 Sep 2006
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has signed IT contracts worth £500m with Atos Origin and LogicaCMG.
The two seven-year deals are for the infrastructure and applications supporting the DCA’s Development, Innovation and Support Contracts (Disc) programme.
The scheme will create a common platform across the central Whitehall department and Crown, County and Magistrates’ courts as current IT contracts expire between now and 2008.
Atos Origin will provide the Disc infrastructure and LogicaCMG the applications.
‘The new contracts will offer greater value for money to the taxpayer and enable better services to the public,’ said DCA permanent secretary Alex Allan.
One of the contracts to be replaced by Disc is the Libra magistrates’ courts private finance initiative, which became a byword for public sector IT problems when costs doubled to almost £400m in its first four years.
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