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Tony Collins is an investigative and campaigning journalist and former Executive Editor at Computer Weekly. With his friend and colleague David Bicknell he wrote "Crash", which found common factors in the world's largest public and private sector IT-related failures. He wrote "Open Verdict", a book on the strange deaths of defence scientists. He writes, and gives talks, on the tensions and disputes between suppliers and users.
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Linked-in ProfileDWP justifies £316m HP contract in era of small deals
Is the DWP providing a financial safety net to some of the biggest IT suppliers
Published 12:03, 27 January 12
Some within the industry say that big outsourcing deals have all but dried up and that large suppliers are worried.
Nevertheless there is a refuge for some of the biggest IT suppliers at the Department for Work and Pensions which seems content to keep awarding big contracts to the companies that have monopolised its technology strategy for decades.
HP, Accenture, IBM and CapGemini are safe in the DWP hands. Indeed the Department this week announced a £316m desktop deal with HP. EDS, which HP acquired in 2008, has been a main DWP supplier for decades. What about G-Cloud?
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