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Buying Solutions has awarded places on its consultancy framework to the following firms: 2020 Delivery, Accenture, Agilisys, Moore Stephens, Amtec, AT Kearney, Atkins Management Consultants, Atos Origin, Baker Tilly, BDO, Berkshire Consultancy, Booz & Company, Capgemini, CMC Partnership, CPC, Deloitte MCS, Detica, Evolve Business Consultancy and Grant Thornton.
The remaining companies awarded places are: Hitachi Consulting, [...]

By Leo King and Anh Nguyen, Computerworld UK
Oil giant BP is aiming to remove a total of $7 billion (£4.7 billion) from annual operational costs, aided by a huge overhaul of IT, processes and project management.
Under a strategy taking place over a total of five years, the company began by successfully removing $4 billion (£2.7 [...]

By Gary S. Greenstein, Esq.
For hundreds of years contract law has been clear – fraud is outside the bounds of a contract. If you commit fraud, you will not be protected by a contractual provision that limits liability for direct damages or excludes indirect damages.
The recent ruling against EDS on a claim of fraudulent [...]

The High Court yesterday ordered HP to pay BSkyB a further £70m in damages and interest, on top of £200m interim damages already awarded.
It means that Sir Vivian Ramsey, the judge in the case of BSkyB versus EDS has ordered HP, EDS’s owner, to pay a total of £270m to BSkyB. But the judge gave [...]

By Leo King
HP has been ordered to make a further interim payment of £70 million to broadcaster BSkyB, over a failed EDS software implementation.
The new order, by the Technology and Construction Court, which must be paid within 14 days, takes HP’s total payments to £270 million, over a system originally pitched by EDS to cost [...]

By Leo King, Computerworld UK
BBC IT services contractors, employed by Siemens, are balloting on strike action.
The contractors are concerned about a pay freeze, announced in recent weeks, as well as redundancies. In the four months to January, 70 Siemens contractors working at the broadcaster were made redundant. The media trade union Bectu believes 50 further [...]

By Karl Flinders
According to Forrester companies in all Western European countries apart from the UK prefer to use contract IT staff over offshoring work.
This according to a report as is to ensure they fit in with the local social fabric and adhere to Labour rules.
But why is the UK so different?
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Source: http://www.computerweekly.com