Capita

British teachers' pensions set to be released from Capita's grasp after nearly 30 years

Contract first signed in 1996 comes to an end in 2025

Applications24 Aug 2021 | 34

SWAN-song: Scotland re-tenders WAN framework for up to £350m

Capita won current deal worth £325m to run public-sector networks until 2023

Networks18 Aug 2021 | 6

In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?

Palantir potentially in line for £50m contract with Brit maritime force

Databases23 Jul 2021 | 12

The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m

It's the longest day of the year

Channel21 Jun 2021 | 5

Capita scores half a billion pound outsourcing contract, but refuses to name (or shame?) lucky 'European telco' customer

Now why on Earth would you be shy about your £528m relationship?

Networks15 Jun 2021 | 9

Shuttered call centre sours Capita's £58m contract extension with Tesco Mobile

Communication Workers Union believes 'scores of employees' will be placed 'at risk' under proposals

Networks11 Jun 2021 | 8

Capita: We're creating a 'Portfolio' division to house all the stuff we don't want

Welcome to the Great Fire sale of old London town

On-Prem17 Mar 2021 | 6

Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms

Fail fast, fail often

Devops15 Feb 2021 | 24

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines

Who remembers that Army recruitment calamity? Not the salty sea dogs running the naval forces

On-Prem18 Dec 2020 | 94

What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract

Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live

On-Prem14 Dec 2020 | 11

Capita finally finds buyer for education software biz, private equity Montagu to pay £400m

Price believed to be £100m lower than initial estimates

On-Prem14 Dec 2020 | 7

The price is right? Capita confirms Education Software back in talks with new bidder

Must have lowered the asking price to one that isn't higher than entire group's market cap

Software27 Nov 2020 | 10

Millions wiped off value of Capita outsourcing deal with English councils amid 'further contract variation agreement'

Updated Procurement services? Not any more. Exchequer services? No thanks. IT Services? Reduced

On-Prem23 Nov 2020 | 36

Pass us a tissue: Capita CFO calls it quits, talks of 'privilege' to work at 'centre' of biz that 'touches the lives of millions'

New interim human calculator hired, permanent replacement being hunted

On-Prem16 Nov 2020 | 12

Capita still wants to offload education software unit, sale talks ongoing

Perhaps if you didn't price it higher than the market cap of the entire Group, you'd have sold it before now

Software10 Nov 2020 | 6

Three rips up call centre outsourcing contract with Capita 2+ years early

Exclusive A sliver of functions coming back in house, most being offshored to India and 380 UK roles put 'at risk' of redundo by Capita

On-Prem06 Nov 2020 | 46

UK govt: It's time to get staff back into the office! Capita: Hey everyone... about that...

Outsourcer's employees 'would like to work in a more flexible way'

On-Prem01 Sep 2020 | 58

Capita: We were juuust about to generate revenue growth and sustainable cash flow – then pandemic stuffed it up

Profits collapse and income slows as virus stymies turnaround plan

On-Prem18 Aug 2020 | 16

UK Home Office dishes out contracts to 999 control room vendors after wasting cash on network tech it abandoned

Another chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga

Networks11 Aug 2020 | 15

Transport for London asks Capita to fling Congestion Charge system into the cloud

For that and other work, hard-pressed integrator cops 5-year £355m contract. What the worst that could happen?

SaaS10 Aug 2020 | 25

Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner

Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe

On-Prem04 Aug 2020 | 4

Firefighters to UK Home Office: Yeah, maybe don't turn off emergency comms network before replacement is ready

Prospects of cursed ESN project still murky for customers-to-be

Networks30 Jul 2020 | 39

Capita's bespoke British Army recruiting IT cost military 25k applicants after switch-on

Taxpayers shelled out £1.3bn for this 'abysmal' flop

Security22 Jul 2020 | 95

Capita Consulting ditching more than a quarter of its workforce 45 days after consultations with consultants

Exclusive 100 people have lost their jobs, COVID-19 blamed

SaaS03 Jul 2020 | 40

Capita capital capitulates to COVID-19 coronavirus: Pandemic blamed as top line sags 10%

Well, that and the 'contract losses'

On-Prem25 Jun 2020 | 3

Gulp! Irish Water outsources contact centres to Capita for up to €27m over 7 years

The most valuable commodity on the planet? Yep, outsourcing

Software16 Jun 2020 | 52

It's June, and you guessed it! Pork barrel time for resellers as £500m public sector framework gets go-ahead

18 county and city councils – as well as an NHS trust – get ready to dish out taxpayers' cash

On-Prem16 Jun 2020 | 6

Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework

What lots are in the public sector pork barrel? Hardware, software, cloud services, security... plus chatbots and blockchain

Channel18 May 2020 | 17

Capita to continue managing Brit teachers' pensions well into the 2020s

Four more years! Four more years!

On-Prem27 Apr 2020 | 6

Capita to place bit less sauce in outsourcing execs' share awards packets

CEO, CFO take a 70% cut in light of performance, COVID-19 situation

On-Prem23 Apr 2020 | 16

Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses

Exclusive Asked to verify the identity of medics using video chat apps Zoom and Facetime

On-Prem07 Apr 2020 | 52

Capita cuts projects, furloughs workers due to 'unpredictable level of disruption' from COVID-19

Outsourcer vows to help efforts in healthcare call centres

On-Prem27 Mar 2020 | 10

Capita CEO and CFO take 'voluntary' pay cut of 25% amid coronavirus outbreak

Exec raises spectre of other cost-cutting activities but doesn't yet mention redundancies

On-Prem24 Mar 2020 | 23

Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive

What could go wrong?

Networks11 Mar 2020 | 45

Turnover down, losses widen and shares crash: So, business as usual at Capita

2019 was year two of the magic turnaround and restructuring deepens

On-Prem05 Mar 2020 | 13

Fire Brigades Union warns of wonky IT causing dangerous delays in 999 control rooms

In some of UK's worst flood-hit areas

Networks19 Feb 2020 | 48

Capita Education Services accidentally spaffs email addresses in Helpdesk snafu

Updated Emailing stuff is hard, m'kay?

Security22 Jan 2020 | 31

Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?

Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative

Channel19 Dec 2019 | 52

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

Problem: We have to do work. Solution: Delete all the work!

On-Prem12 Dec 2019 | 32

Ex-Capita accountant who claimed £10k bung to leave was blackmail has appeal thrown out

You didn't work 2 weeks straight so you couldn't have been whistleblowing, tribunal rules

Legal18 Nov 2019 | 47

Guess who the Co-op Bank chose for £141m outsourcing deal? Can't be. Yes, it's Capita

Troubled outsourcer continues work with troubled bank

On-Prem31 Oct 2019 | 11

One of Blighty's most-loved charities hands £46m to one of Blighty's least-loved outsourcers

I'll take the National Trust and Capita for 100, Alex

Channel24 Oct 2019 | 47

Amazon Web Services doubled its footprint in the UK and will only get bigger, reckon analysts

Capita retains software and IT services top spot... for now

SaaS06 Aug 2019 | 14

'Transformation' at Capita: Profits? Down. Revenue? Down. Order book? You guessed it

Better luck next year

On-Prem01 Aug 2019 | 24

Outsourcing giant Capita handed £145m for UK.gov's Personal Independence Payment extension

Part of plan to 'transition' to a new IT system

Legal31 Jul 2019 | 26

UK government buys off Serco lawsuit with £10m bung. Whew. Now Capita can start running fire and rescue

Makes you proud to be British

On-Prem19 Jul 2019 | 47

British Army cyber 'n' psyops unit 77 Brigade can't even brainwash civvies into helping it meet recruitment targets

Part-timers needed

Security23 May 2019 | 66

British Army down thousands of soldiers after outsourcing recruitment IT to Capita

But have latest changes finally made a positive difference?

On-Prem16 May 2019 | 45

Two Capita staffers to double up as non-exec directors, get keys to corporate biscuit barrel

Meet Murphy & Browne: Not a crap cop show, but the pair to represent 63k poor employees

On-Prem14 May 2019 | 21

Capita bags £13.2m Police Scotland deal for crime-snooping tech

Picking up slack from doomed Accenture IT contract i6

Security04 Apr 2019 | 14

Hands up who can tell me which pupil details transfer system has glitched. Yes, Capita's

Schools told not to use it 'until further notice'

Legal04 Apr 2019 | 16

Top personnel general joined Capita months after firm won its Army recruiting IT contract

Hire was rubber-stamped by sleeping watchdog

On-Prem22 Mar 2019 | 21

Capita: B is for Brexit, C is for cutting costs. Stock exchange: Yay! You guys are awesome

What do you think A is for, staffers? Oh yeah, no one asked you...

On-Prem14 Mar 2019 | 23

MPs tear 'naive' British Army a new one over Capita recruitment farce

But things are getting better, insists notorious outsourcer

Legal01 Mar 2019 | 90

UK.gov pens Carillion-proofing playbook: Let's run pilots of work before we outsource it, check firms' finances

Also makes vendor-luring pledge to take its fair share of risk

On-Prem21 Feb 2019 | 15

Army had 'naive' approach to Capita's £1.3bn recruiting IT contract, MPs told

£26m 'deducted' from payments but Public Accounts Committee remains sceptical

On-Prem15 Jan 2019 | 80