UK's National Savings & Investments bank looks for new IT partner in £172m deal

UK state-owned bank National Savings & Investments (NS&I) is on the hunt for an IT partner – with a deal worth up to £172m in the offing – as its longstanding arrangement with Atos IT Service draws to a close. The Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is looking for an IT services company to "deliver digital self …

[Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse]

Lollin' about...

"The contract is expected to have a one-year implementation period"

Haha, good luck with that. Assume this what the non-technical bean counters want, rather than actually speaking to the technical leads and planners to gauge what is actually possible?

[philstubbington]

Re: Lollin' about...

It’s the contract that’s going to take a year to implement, not what’s being delivered from it. Seems like a long time to me - but then it’s public sectorish, so who knows?!

[Anonymous Coward]

ERNIE

Who also drove the fastest milk cart in the west......

Apologies to those of a certain age for whom that song will now be stuck in their head for the rest of the day.

[Korev]

Re: ERNIE

I was about to post the same...

[Giles C]

Re: ERNIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI

[Primus Secundus Tertius]

Ernie's real purpose?

I always wondered if the real reason for building ERNIE was to generate random numbers for encrypting government messages.

[DaemonProcess]

Re: Ernie's real purpose?

I wondered that, also whether government had their own separate implementation stuck in a Faraday cage somewhere. If not then why not - would that mean Ernie was discovered to be not as random as first advertised?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Ernie's real purpose?

Nowadays it's used to generate fat cheques to Crapita, Fujistu, KPMG, Deloitte, Dildo Harding,....

[Admiral Grace Hopper]

Fujitsu?

What could possibly go wrong?

[Korev]

Re: Fujitsu?

We shall found out post-haste

[cantankerous swineherd]

is 172 million for a computer cheaper than doing it by hand?

ns&i have a perfectly good paper system which I much prefer to the insecure digital effort.

"NS&I's retail banking customers" - they have retail banking customers? they issue cheque books and debit cards?

[Claverhouse]

Boredom

The Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is looking for an IT services company to "deliver digital self-service experiences and journeys to NS&I's retail banking customers, and to enable Assisted Digital support. It will deliver these services to mobile app, website and voice assistant channels," according to a tender notice.

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Why can't they just say they want someone to run their computers ?