Sunday, 25 September 2011

Passport Agency IT contract costs UK taxpayers Ј365m, four times original quote

THE cost of a multi-million-pound government IT project has more than quadrupled, it emerged today.
The ten-year deal signed by the Passport Agency, part of the Home Office, was supposed to cost between 80 million and 100m. But figures revealed today show the final bill for the contract with German firm Siemens is 365m – about four times the ori
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ginal quote.
Immigration minister Damian Green said: “The increase in costs over the term of the Siemens contract can be attributed to numerous factors including additional demand for

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