Under terms of the 896m pound ($1.62bn) deal that will run to 2013, Fujitsu Services will introduce an electronic patients records system throughout the south of England, enabling doctors and hospital clinicians in the region to access patient information from anywhere in the country. Fujitsu beat a rival bid from EDS Corp, and a joint bid from SchlumbergerSema and Cerner Corp.
Fujitsu Services will lead an alliance that also includes offshore services vendor Tata Consultancy Services, which will provide application implementation and data migration, and accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, which will provide security services and training. BT Group Plc will provide systems integration services to fuse together existing electronics records where possible, and IDX Systems Corp will deliver the core clinical application.
The deal represents the last of the five local service provider contracts to be awarded by the NHS in the last month. Accenture Ltd won deals in the eastern region ($1.69bn) and the north east region ($1.99bn), Computer Sciences Corp won an award covering the north west and West Midlands region ($1.76bn), and BT Group captured the deal covering Greater London ($1.80bn).
In total, more than 5.58bn pounds ($10.1bn) of local and national IT services projects have been awarded since October 2003 and the big winner has been Accenture whose two prime contracts give it a 36% share to date. The biggest losers have been IBM Global Services and EDS, which failed to win a single deal between them, despite their status as the world’s two largest IT services providers.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
