EDS receives £9m compensation

IT supplier, EDS, will receive £9million in Government compensation and other payments after the Department of Health prematurely ended its contract to supply email and directory systems to the NHS.

According to Computer Weekly the contract was terminated in March, less than two years into a 10-year deal, amid criticisms of the system by some users and the Department of Health, which said it was not as widely used as expected. It had about 65,000 users among the NHS’s 1.2 million staff.

Article: EDS gets £9m compensation for cancelled NHS e-mail contract