CSC the US company contracted to provide IT technology for the National Health Service, and one of the bidders in SPVA's market test, is set to receive a £2 billion extension to its contract despite the failed project being abandoned, it was claimed last night.Computer Sciences Corporation [CSC] has reportedly informed Wall Street that it expects its contract to provide electronic patient records across the NHS to be extended.
Taxpayers are now facing an estimated £2billion bill, despite the company already failing to deliver a fully functional version of its software.
The £11.4billion National Programme for IT, set up in 2002, was at the time billed as the world’s biggest civilian computerisation project.
