DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B

The UK's largest police force has awarded DXC Technology a contract worth up to £1 billion to develop and run a host of business process outsourcing services – including building a new Oracle ERP system. Set to support a number of related organizations as well as the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the contract includes ERP …

[Anonymous Coward]

Oracle

What could possibly go wrong here ?

So in about 3 years time there will be no bobbies on the beat in London as their budget is going on the huge overrun on cost that will happen

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Oracle

Do they never learn? Or is the first tranche of the overrun included in the billion?

[Random as if !]

Re: Oracle

As the forces are merging , I would say that this is the right time for something new, and the IT jobs will be security cleared so UK jobs. Also there is no way to plan it as the forces merge is still undecided.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oracle

You would have though some common sense from The Home Office, devolved assemblies and ACPO/College of Policing to create a UK wide system that any Police Force could use would have been aspirational, that would also align with Emergency Services 999 and related partners on Ambulance, Fire, Coastguard, Social Services, NHS, Highways Agencies, HM Courts Services, 3rd Party Sippliers etc.

Perhaps even work with similar Irish or European organisations to common purpose.

I still don’t know how the fuck £1bn for Police ERP however as they don’t sell anything or make anything ……

…. though it will be over-spent and under delivering in 2-3 years and a train-wreck in 5.…

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oracle

DXC will always try to shift the work overseas to 'best shore' (offshore) locations - I used to work for them and even though one project had to be UK based with UK nationals they were always asking what could be moved to 'other non-UK locations', so I wouldn't hold your breath about this just meaning UK (only) jobs.

[Random as if !]

Re: Oracle

Having worked on JDE and unravelling a system , I would say Oracle is a bit better than SAP , and this gives us time to understand a system when we are also merging all police forces, Oracle were helpful with unravelling JDE , and gave us , well me insight to how the ERP works, so I think it's a positive in the world of pretend SaaS and AI vibe coding, people will learn something as they have to.

[takno]

Re: Oracle

Oracle may have been helpful in the years before they laid off a massive proportion of their workforce to pay for their crazy bet on AI. I wouldn't necessarily assume that the same applies going forward

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: Oracle

"Oracle may have been helpful in the years before…"

I suspect "useful" only in the sense that if you had peripheral gangrene and needed toes removed.

[Random as if !]

Re: Oracle

Ah forgot about this , don't think it's AI just that a big recession is looming.

[Bebu sa Ware]

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal

"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"

DXC isn't even the first circle of Hell but Oracle itself has major tenancies on most circles.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal

DXC staff morale is rock bottom (no pay rises for years, not even cost of living) so the good people leave, new starters only stay a while and the rest are coasting to retirement or redundancy. DXC has swallowed the AI hype to try and keep the directors' bonus going for a few more years but just check their share price (and it would be even lower if there weren't so many stock buy-backs.

Add in Oracle involvement and in two years time there will be a crises of some sort.

[Anonymous Coward]

figures

I see the original provisioning for SSCL was £234.5m, expected to accrue savings of £101m over the 10 year period. That is almost half the contract's worth, what kind of idiot would believe you could claw back half the contract in cost savings and the total ended up being double the original price. Maybe the scope changed but no details in the text to say why.

I've spent many years working in the city with outsourcing , never heard of a 43% savings on any outsourcing , in fact any saving at all, everything springs way out of the original budget but we still hope and pray it's going to happen one day like water into wine....

They should get pre 11 plus kids to do these figure estimations they would be much closer to the real cost.

Is it going to be any better with the estimates for DXC going by their past articles on this website , No fucking way :) , in fact double those current estimates and then add more quarter , half etc and savings don't even bother asking, it's a guaranteed no.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well Done DXC

For a business created from most of the old HP ES and all of CSC, it actually seems to be one tech merger than produces results.

And generally, unlike the likes of Crapita, Fushitsu, Oracle, Atos etc. it doesn't seem to make the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

[IGotOut]

Re: Well Done DXC

I beg to differ.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/dxc_oracle_uk_contract/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/07/dxc_swift_cartel_australia_accc/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/15/dxc_technology_sec_fine/

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Well Done DXC

Hardly a success, kept afloat by AI hype, constant cuts in staffing and underpaying it's (very unhappy) staff.

https://www.thelayoff.com/dxc

[Dunstan Vavasour]

Re: Well Done DXC

You're new round here, aren't you?

[AgentGreen]

Re: Well Done DXC

Having had the distinct displeasure of experiencing their "support services" first-hand, DXC is one of the worst tech companies out there.

[Will Godfrey]

Is that all?

For a moment I read that headline figure as eighteen pounds - although that probably will be the actual value of the {cough} service.