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UK government has named the winning suppliers on the first tranche of a tech deal which could be worth a total of £4.2 billion ($5.24 billion) for application software services supporting the nation's tax collector. Accenture, Capgemini and IBM are among the winners of Phase 1 of the Digital and Legacy Application Services, or …

  1. Elongated Muskrat Silver badge

    UK government has named the winning suppliers on the first tranche of a tech deal which could be worth a total of £4.2 billion ($5.24 billion) £5.6Bn $11.2Bn [[Project Cancelled]] for application software services supporting the nation's tax collector.

    There, FTFY

  2. Arthur the cat Silver badge

    Digital and Legacy Application Services, or DALAS

    No doubt some of it will turn out to have been a dream.

    1. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge

      Re: Digital and Legacy Application Services, or DALAS

      Bobby[The Treasury minister] wakes up to find the Cowboys have been filling up their stetsons with £££ for billable hours and there's nothing much to show for it

  3. Ian Johnston Silver badge

    It's going to go wrong, isn't it?

    1. steviebuk Silver badge

      Then lessons will be learned. Then it will go wronf again.

  4. pmelon

    Accenture

    I work with them on a daily basis so feel obliged to chip in where they are mentioned: they are useless, the work is of the lowest quality and they form the low point of my working time.

    1. NeilPost Silver badge

      Re: Accenture

      If only they were as committed to delivering end solutions as they are in creating endless procurement tenders.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Accenture

      Ditto, they're atrocious.

  5. NiceCuppaTea

    no Crapita in the list?

    1. Julian 8

      Probably won lot 4

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