HMRC plans to break up multi-billion IT contract
A plan by HMRC to split its multi-billion pound IT contract into smaller parts may worsen the service, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union has said.
The Times reported this week that the tax department is planning to reorganise one of the world’s largest outsourced IT projects into 100 parts.
Experts told the newspaper that the Aspire contract is “heading for disaster” and would put billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money at risk.
HMRC said in a statement that it will renew its Aspire contract within Cabinet Office guidelines and on time.
“The recent National Audit Office (NAO) report recognised the Aspire contract played a key role in helping the department to collect almost £506bn for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.
Source: accountingweb
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