UK public don’t belief Fujitsu, however authorities does
The general public nonetheless don’t belief Fujitsu following its function within the Publish Workplace scandal, in accordance with a snap ballot, however the authorities continues at hand it contracts and embrace it in big procurement frameworks.
In a Each day Mail ballot this week, readers had been requested whether or not the corporate needs to be blacklisted after the Publish Workplace scandal.
Feeling in opposition to the provider stays excessive. On the time of writing, out of almost 6,000 votes, 95% agreed that the provider needs to be banned as a result of it can’t be trusted. Simply 1% mentioned the provider needs to be given a second likelihood, and 4% mentioned it shouldn’t be banned, however carefully monitored.
It was in January 2024, following ITV’s dramatisation of the Publish Workplace scandal, that public anger boiled over. It was then that Fujitsu, which had simply had its function within the scandal detailed to the broader public, carried out a pause on bidding for presidency contracts, whereas the general public inquiry, which started in early 2022, was ongoing. The ultimate report from the inquiry is anticipated early subsequent 12 months.
Fujitsu’s closely caveated self-imposed ban didn’t cease the provider win a whole lot of thousands and thousands price of offers, and now, Fujitsu has landed a profitable authorities contract.
However regardless of its apologies and guarantees, Fujitsu has did not persuade the general public.
Laptop Weekly has revealed some worrying information concerning the interior workings of Fujitsu within the UK. In April 2024, simply a few months after the provider banned itself from bidding for presidency contracts, Laptop Weekly reported that the corporate’s public sector boss was instructing employees on get across the self-imposed ban.
Learn extra: Fujitsu’s function within the Publish Workplace scandal: Every little thing it’s essential know
Then, in October 2025, after the Publish Workplace scandal public inquiry chair printed his first report, which linked Fujitsu’s software program issues to 13 suicides, a senior govt on the provider mentioned the report “was not that dangerous”.
However the authorities alternatives preserve coming. Simply this month, Fujitsu has been confirmed as a provider on 4 authorities procurement frameworks by the Authorities Industrial Company (GCA), price over £54bn in complete.
On 24 July, Fujitsu was named on the G Cloud 15 framework, which is price £16.8bn in complete. In accordance with the GCA, this replaces G-Cloud 14 in offering “a big number of cloud-based companies from a variety of suppliers, together with: cloud internet hosting companies, cloud software program companies and cloud assist companies”.
Simply days earlier, Fujitsu was named on the £19.2bn Know-how Companies 4 framework, which, in accordance with GCA, “is for the availability of expertise and digital consultancy companies, transition and SIAM, finish person companies, infrastructure companies, stay service administration and upkeep, asset administration, utility improvement and lifecycle administration companies, knowledge administration, safety administration and transformation companies”.
On the identical day, it was named on the Transport Know-how framework, which is a £4.2bn framework for “expertise items and companies for sustainable city, rural and intercity transport and mobility”.
A day earlier, Fujitsu was named on the £14bn Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 framework, which “offers the general public sector with entry to agile improvement and user-centred design companies” and “contains shopping for digital specialists to ship particular outcomes, or to assist pressing wants”.
The Publish Workplace scandal was first uncovered by Laptop Weekly in 2009, revealing the tales of seven subpostmasters and the issues they suffered because of the accounting software program (see timeline of Laptop Weekly articles concerning the scandal under).
