By Karl Flinders
Publication Date: 2026-03-09 12:50:00
IBM is bidding for a Post Office contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds, a decade after it was paid to walk away from a contract it won to replace the controversial Horizon system.
Computer Weekly has learned that the US tech giant is bidding for a contract as part of the Post Office’s plan to replace Fujitsu’s Horizon system, with DXC partnering with it on the bid.
This is not the first time IBM has bid for a major contract at the Post Office. In 2013, work began on a £100m multi-supplier contract, which included IBM, but it was cancelled in 2015. The Post Office had to pay IBM millions of pounds of taxpayer funds for work already done.
The contract with IBM was reported by Computer Weekly in June 2015, after Andrew Bridgen, former MP for North West Leicestershire, said he had an email that proved the Post Office was looking to replace Horizon.
But speaking at a Post Office scandal public inquiry hearing in May 2024, Alisdair Cameron, Post Office chief financial…
