TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run On the back of a £1.5 billion contract win, Tata Consultancy Services is at it again, bagging a £234 million ($297 million) deal to administer the UK's Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS). The scheme, run by the Department for Education on behalf of public and private school teachers and their employers in the UK, currently relies …
Darlington is surprise, surprise, where Capita offices running the TPS are currently located.
I expect (initially at least) the staff will just get to change employer, probably running the same software.
But obviously as it's a cheaper bid no doubt there will be savings to be made.
"future-ready, digitally enabled, omnichannel platform"
Or, for those hard of techno-crap,
"Future ready" : no email or postal address or phone number to avoid the cost of human interaction
"Digitally enabled" : a web site with a "contact us" form
"Omnichannel platform" : "Digitally enabled" and "future ready" ...
I see it more as:
"Future ready" : "Ready for additional Change Requests, to make it do what you actually wanted"
"Digitally enabled" : ... "We have a website, and some new fangled S3 thing to put stuff in" (secured S3 is additional change request)
"Omnichannel platform" : "The platform wasn't really built to do this, but we'll make it fit for the right price" (see "Future ready" above).
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