back to article Trustmarque has been sold yet again – this time to Capita for £57m

Capita has acquired Microsoft licensing house and managed services biz Trustmarque for £57m in cash – the fourth time the company has changed hands in three years Trustmarque, part of the Liberata Group, was rolled onto the market in February by parent Ardbid Ltd, appointing investment bank William Blair to find a buyer, as we …

  1. The Godfather
    Coat

    Hot potato

    This is a classic case of passing a hot potato around. Expect the original business of Trustmarque to disappear into Capita's black hole.

  2. Sir Barry

    Synergies

    Who wants to bet how long before redundancies are announced?

  3. tojb
    Big Brother

    monopoly, conflict of interest

    Capita was recently delighted to announce that its near-monopoly on running the NHS has been still more strongly consolidated:

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/408bcd74-18bb-11e5-8201-cbdb03d71480.html#axzz4CHcl4nKu

    in particular, it has a contract to advise the "commissioning groups" which decide what IT services to buy, while one of trustmarque's businesses is selling managed windows boxen to the NHS.

    I wonder, having collected its advisory fee, which business capita will advise the NHS to buy/rent its PCs from?

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