the local government scene under its new ownership. EDS, absorbed into HP following a $14bn merger two years ago, is on the lookout for opportunities in providing standard services to the sector, Craig Wilson, managing director, HP Enterprise, said last week.
HP last month lost a significant part of its central government business, the desktop component of its contract with the Department for Work and Pensions, to Fujitsu.
In an interview, Wilson said that EDS had traditionally eschewed local government business because of the small size and “very thin” profit margins of the contracts. However he said the sector is now looking more attractive to the company, partly because the HP sales force already has a relationship with most local authorities, partly because of demand for more consolidation of IT.
Wilson said that despite the Conservatives’ stated antipathy to large projects the need for “profound change” in the public sector would continue to require large procurements whoever wins the general election. However he predicted that a Tory government would implement at least a short-term freeze on procurements. “One thing that new ministers can do quite easily is to stop things.”
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