£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years
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UK tax collector insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement
The UK's tax collector has awarded Capgemini a £37 million contract to help migrate a critical tax system from SAP's legacy ECC platform to S/4HANA, extending a supplier relationship that began in 2004.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has hired the French IT services company to move the Enterprise Tax Management Platform (ETMP) from SAP ECC 6.0 to its successor, S/4HANA, a completely re-engineered application platform.
Aspire cost £7.9 billion between July 2004 and March 2014 and generated £1.2 billion in combined profit for Capgemini and Fujitsu, equivalent to a margin of 15.8 percent
The system provides 40,000 users with returns processing, tax accounting, payments, and data management capabilities, and handles more than £800 billion in tax revenue and payments annually.
The contract runs until 2032, potentially extending Capgemini's involvement with HMRC's tax systems to 28 years.
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