Fujitsu rules itself out of UK public contract bids during Post Office inquiry

Fujitsu has told the government it will not bid for public contracts while the inquiry into the Post Office scandal continues. Fujitsu developed the Horizon software used by the Post Office which was later found to be faulty. Mr Burghart told the House of Commons on Thursday: "This morning Cabinet Office received a letter from Fujitsu voluntarily undertaking not to bid for government contracts whilst the inquiry is ongoing, unless of course the government ask them to." The government has continued to award billions of pounds worth of public contracts to Fujitsu even after it emerged that faults in its Horizon accountancy software made it look like there were shortfalls at Post Office branches. The Post Office carried on with the prosecutions.

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