Years after UK Post Office scandal broke, Accenture and OneView Commerce bag contract to replace Horizon
Service tries to move on from troubled decades of Fujitsu relationship with £410 million in deals for system that hurt so many
The UK Post Office hasawarded Accenture and OneView Commerce contracts worth £410 million toreplace its troubled Horizon systems, which contributed to one of the most seriousmiscarriages of justice in British history.
Accenture has won thebidding to replace incumbent supplier Fujitsu — which built the error-prone PoSand finance system starting from 1996 — on a so-called Walk In Take Over basis.It is set to stabilize services and upgrade software as it prepares for acomplete business transformation and manages the migration to new SaaS. Itsdeal is worth £269 million for five years plus two optional single-yearextensions, according to a procurement notice.
The lesser-known OneViewCommerce — a provider of retail and inventory management SaaS — has won the £141million agreement to provide software to “transform [the Post...
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