Overdue: After a 2-year £12m delay, Northern Ireland Libraries looks to close chapter on Fujitsu saga Northern Ireland Libraries is launching a formal procurement of a £60m IT contract to replace incumbent supplier Fujitsu following a two-year delay costing taxpayers some £12m. According to a tender notice, the public-sector organisation responsible for libraries in the UK territory wants to "secure a strategic partner who …
Why do they have to have renewed hardware ?
As far as libraries are concerned, any hardware since 2010 is good to go, just slap Windows 1 0 on the desktops, load the environment and the job is done.
You don't need a brand new 4Ghz CPU and 8GB of DDR5 to look for a book.
Surely with more bad news filtering out daily about the Horizon Post Office scandal, it is now the largest miscarriage in UK legal history ever, which included wrongful persecution and conviction of people in North Ireland, now is the time to stop giving Fujitsu public contracts for a while at least?
Yes I know they are incredibly cheap compare to other bids going for the same contract, but that cheapest quote is costing the same as the other bids thanks to delays, maybe more, when we consider the amount the Government will need to pay out to compensate the thousands of victims of the Horizon IT system.
If you had been inside one recently you'd see that's been happening piece by piece for for the last twenty years. My local library has less than 1/3 of the books it use ot have and a smattering of old computers. The opening hours have been cut back to 10am-4pm. In other words they are running it down to the point they can conduct a study showing they should shut it down entirely.
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