£75 million in the offing in government tender
The Post Office, the UK government-owned retail organization for post and banking, has kicked off procurement to help build the system replacing Horizon, the disastrous EPOS and back office system at the heart of one of the country's greatest miscarriages of justice.
In a tender notice this week, the Post Office said vendors interested in working on a replacement system should sign a non-disclosure agreement."Post Office is in the process of replacing its existing EPOS system, known as Horizon," the notice said, putting the contract price at around £75 million .explained the Post Office is building the new system – called New Branch IT, or NBIT – in-house as part of its Strategic Platform Modernisation Programme .
"This procurement therefore is designed to identify and appoint suitable partners to a small panel of providers of such services. Work will be let via mini-competitions within the panels on either a or fixed price dependent on the nature of the work packages."
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