The UK Post Office announces plans to move away from the Horizon IT system associated with the Horizon scandal. Multiple reports say the organisation is awarding major contracts to new providers to run Horizon’s successor and develop an alternative system. According to the Evening Standard and the Financial Times, Accenture and One View Commerce (also reported as OneView Commerce) are named as the companies receiving the work. The contracts are described as large, with reported totals around £491 million to £500 million. The Mirror similarly frames the announcement as a decision to ditch Fujitsu and points to the scale of new contracts that will support operation of Horizon and the transition to replacement systems.
While the reports differ slightly on reported contract totals and the precise phrasing of what the new contracts cover, they converge on the same core development: Fujitsu’s role in the Horizon system is being replaced, and Accenture and One View Commerce are being brought in under substantial contract awards to run the system and create an alternative. The Post Office does not present the announcements as a routine procurement, but as part of its response to the longstanding scandal over Horizon.
