Government u-turn on private finance for IT
News A report by the Treasury, PFI: meeting the investment challenge, concluded that while PFI was working in many sectors, it was not delivering value for money in IT contracts. One of the objectives of using the PFI model in IT was to introduce third...
[July 17, 2003, 15:53]
NHS patient data sold on eBay
News Disposal of the trust's computers is carried out under contract to Siemens Medical Solutions, as part of a PFI agreement. An NHS trust is investigating how one of its hard drives containing confidential information was sold online.
[September 17, 2007, 14:18]
Contactless payment system crash probed
News Oyster cards were introduced in 2003 with the £1.2bn PFI contract going to the EDS-led Transys consortium, which also includes Cubic Transportation Systems. London Underground is investigating the cause of a computer glitch that caused its Oyster...
[March 10, 2005, 15:10]
MoD sends Skynet satellite into orbit
News Paradigm Secure Communications, a consortium of BAE Systems and EADS, won the private finance initiative (PFI) contract to develop Skynet 5 in 2003. The minister said the PFI deal was an "excellent example" of how partnerships between the defence...
[November 19, 2007, 11:43]
E-Envoy sees Chancellor as broadband obstacle
News We need to use the 3G licence fee money, or agree a PFI (public finance initiative) or some kind of joint funding," Wyatt urged. A split may have broken out within government circles after e-Envoy Andrew Pinder told business leaders on Monday that...
[November 6, 2001, 14:14]
7/7 bomb rescue efforts hampered by communication failings
News The report said the 20-year timeframe for the completion of TfL's £2bn PFI project for the rollout of a digital radio system underground on the tube needs to be "significantly reduced" and a feasibility study undertaken to assess potential interim...
[June 5, 2006, 15:05]
Why I am now a Technology Tory
Blog Translation to the real world: PFI, the National Curriculum/SATs, CCTV, NPfIT - the list goes on and on and on. If the classic definition of being Tory is a dislike of big government and a hankering after the clarity of the past, I now find myself...
[July 24, 2008, 16:44]
