My readers should note the PRICE tag (nearly 6 billion Australian dollars for this contract and a staggering total of around 36 BILLION Aussie Dollars) for this innovative outsourcing project and then should ask the following question:"Did anyone put a penalty clause into the contract?"
Jamie Doward, home affairs editor
Sunday October 1, 2006
The Observer
The company charged with rescuing the NHS's troubled IT system has consistently failed to meet its deadlines for introducing the project across the health service, The Observer can reveal.Last week Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was awarded a £2bn contract to take on a bigger role in overseeing the implementation of the Connecting for Health system, the biggest civilian computer project in history which is supposed to electronically link all doctors' surgeries and hospitals. But government hopes that CSC will prove the £12.4bn project's salvation have been hit by news that the company has itself experienced huge problems in implementing even the most basic parts of the project.
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