The trouble with EDS
How the government fell out with its main IT supplier
“NO PUBLIC sector can be comfortable having one dominant supplier,” Sir Peter Gershon told a House of Commons committee last winter. Sir Peter, who oversees government procurement, should be a happier man now: the supplier he had in mind was Electronic Data Systems (EDS), an American company which a year ago held half the government IT contracts in Britain. Today it is busy handing over the biggest of them, with the Inland Revenue, to a successor.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The trouble with EDS”
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