The problem for the UK is the Fujitsu owns the last vestiges of the UK IT scene.

ICT/ICL and a bunch of other were all bought out by them in the early 90s.

But also there are two other issues:

1) there aren't many companies that are able to bid on that scale

2) if you remove fujitsu then you're handing it to either crapita or atos. who are also shite.

The solution to this is develop decent in-house architecture team who are able to drive specs and keep an eye on developments.

But

That requires three further things:

1) long term vision, with enough run way/agency to affect change

2) enough money to pay and keep decent people

3) the ability to terminate contracts when they get into shit. This is policitically challenging because contract termination == the current minister is shite in news term. "FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME SCRAPPED BECAUSE OF POOR PERFORMANCE, here is why $government is bad with lots of input from people with agendas that haven't properly been vetted because the journalist isn't a specialist (or its not a news site)"

And Paula Vennells continues to escape real consequences.