people · May 14, 2026
Accenture Joins IBM in Competition for £323 Million Post Office Horizon Replacement Contract
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The UK government allocated £483 million on February 1, 2026, to fund the Post Office's replacement of Fujitsu's Horizon IT system, with Accenture entering the bidding against IBM on May 14, 2026. IBM leads the consortium with Post Office executives, focusing on a cloud-native platform using IBM Cloud Pak for Data to process over 10 million annual transactions securely. Accenture proposes a DevSecOps model integrated with its own AI governance framework, targeting a 2028 go-live date after the system's prior failures led to over 900 wrongful convictions between 1999 and 2015. Fujitsu's Horizon contract, valued at £1.2 billion since 1999, ends in 2027.
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