Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals

A new court filing has revealed the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions accepted a bid from Capita to run its new Oracle-based HR and finance system at £272 million less than its own cost modelling. In March, the UK outsourcing company won the contract for running shared services for £370 million over ten years. The central government department had earlier produced a "Should Cost Model" — designed to protect against a bias towards low bids — which provided a tota