IBM secures DWP contract worth up to £2.1m for 6 months of cloud services

The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded IBM a contract for cloud services worth up to £2.13 million ($2.67 million) for just six months. The deal began at the beginning of April, although a public procurement notice was only published in the past week. It said the contract, which is set to run until 30 …

[cantankerous swineherd]

perhaps they'll get round to sending that email they said would turn up a month ago

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Lookout!

Looks like they've ditched Notes for email after around 25 years

[Vometia has insomnia. Again.]

"It wuz the ICL mainframe wot dun it!"

What do they mean it's the ICL mainframe's fault? It did it out of spite? I thought that was the usual territory of the DWP itself. Stop blaming the computer, poor old thing's practically a pensioner too.

[steviebuk]

"IBM & DWP contract....

....comes to an abrupt end due to failings at IBM. Lessons have been learned"

I predict this in a year or two. And no lessons will have been learned.

[Lord Elpuss]

Re: "IBM & DWP contract....

IBM will do EXACTLY what's in the contract, no more and no less. They're experts at this.

What will likely happen is that neither party knows exactly what the problem is, what needs to be done to fix it, or what the roadblocks are likely to be. The contract will be put together by the cheapest possible personnel on both sides, based on estimates from staff who graduated from uni six months ago and have only ever seen this kind of thing in textbooks, will be time & materials based rather than fixed fee, and will collapse in a blizzard of blame and finger pointing many months late (and many £millions over budget).

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "IBM & DWP contract....

Most government contracts are fixed price to perform these days and, whatever about the UK government, IBM contract lawyers will have been around the blocks a few times.

[Anonymous Coward]

Your tax £ hard at work ..

.. lining the pockets of faceless, mindless seniors in a morally bankrupt corporation that should have been allowed to die.

ANOTHER waste of money .. and yet we all play the game and put our hands into our pockets to pay IBM to fix ICL, who will then be replace by Accenture who will then have their work fixed by DXC.

[PeterM42]

One good thing for the government....

----will probably stop payments to the unemployed.