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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

DISGRACED EDS/HP LOOKS SET TO LOSE MORE UK GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

Posted by EDS FUCK UPS at 12:43 PM
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking to award five contracts for application development and maintenance worth up to £275m.

The DWP groups its IT into separate “towers” comprising: desktop PC services; hosting services; application maintenance; and a fourth integration layer to link the pieces together.

Currently all the contracts are with disgraced IT provider EDS. The hosting contract has been renewed but the bidding process is underway for desktop services and now application maintenance.

The application maintenance work is being split into five lots.


"A key element of the IS/IT service architecture is the provision of an application deployment service which involves the provision of feasibility, prototyping, design, development, integration, build, test, implementation, maintenance and management of applications, provision of technical consulting, support, and continuing development and enhancement of application functionality to support evolving business requirements," says the contract notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Each service provider will be expected to take advantage of the development of common services, making effective use of integration technologies, " commercial off-the-shelf" packages and existing systems.

The DWP has one of the biggest IT infrastructures in Europe and considering the monumental past errors made, it would take a brave or foolish person to entrust EDS with any UK government contracts.
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7 comments:

  1. Historically, EDS's performance on government contracts has been poor to say the least. It is scandalous that they have been awarded another hosting contract. All the evidence points to a company that cannot be trusted with UK data.
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  2. I was outsourced to EDS for 10 years. Let me first say, dont expect any payrises..They will come up with excuse after excuse..oh there is nothing under the budget, or the best one is a wage freeze that goes for ever..

    2nd - Redundancy is your friend... EDS like to have their redundancies go thru about twice a year...Great stuff

    3rd - Dont beleive all they hype they give you about coming on board.. It sucks..its all bullshit...

    So i hope i have not been to negative..but seriously..its the way it is.. I am not the only one who thinks like that thats for sure
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  3. The government should not only strip EDS of contracts but also HP, cos after all, they are the same company. The management should also be made to pay back any bonuses that have been issued. Why should the uk tax payer have to continue to suffer because of government and company failings? Why should education be cut back because of these failings? Why should our children suffer?
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  4. Bang on Sarah, HP should be driven from the uk in shame for what they have been up to.
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  5. Looks like EDS will lose the majority of their DWP contracts and probably most other Government contracts.
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  7. They employee people and then don't give them the training to do their jobs efficiantly and work on the ethic of " stab your colleagues in the back". Hence a workforce sadly lacking in skills and motivation
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