IT contracts a barrier to election savings pledges

摘要

Major computer companies hold the key to Labour and Conservative election promises to achieve multibillion-pound savings in central government departments, but some have good reason not to co-operate fully, Computer Weekly has learnt. Large-scale contracting out of Whitehall systems and jobs in the 1990s has left IT suppliers with lucrative contracts. Some of these will have to be renegotiated if the next government is to achieve most of the savings that underpin the tax and spending plans being outlined in the election campaign.