I worked on the bid for an earlier version of the Post Office Counter-mechanisation project ("counter-mech"). That effort failed, as did several other efforts.

I worked on the bid for an earlier version of the Post Office Counter-mechanisation project ("counter-mech"). That effort failed, as did several other efforts. The failure was definitely the result of truly awful Post Office management of the project. FWIW, our bid was doomed - Big Blue had already stitched it up (as in, "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM"). As a result of that experience, I am predisposed to conclude that the system failings were not Fujitsu's fault, but the Post Office's. The PO doesn't have a sparkling record in IT procurement. That the PO went after postmasters, knowing that the system they were required to use was reporting false numbers, is appalling, and I hope some executives get jailed. But I don't hold out much hope; the culprits have probably already retired, and figuring out exactly who (among the many people that must have known) to hold responsible looks like the devil of a task.