Another contract extension for Fujitsu on the Post Office’s Horizon

The Post Office has agreed a time-limited extension to Fujitsu’s contract so it can transfer operation of the Horizon system to Accenture. The move is a step towards ending a long-standing relationship damaged by the Horizon scandal, in which flaws in the system contributed to wrongful prosecutions and convictions of subpostmasters.

Fujitsu’s current contract runs until March 2027, and the handover is planned between 1 June and 1 September that year, with the final date due to be confirmed in March. Accenture won a £410 million contract in May to take over Horizon from September 2027 and help develop a replacement platform for the Post Office’s 11,500 branches. Around 736 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted and convicted between 1999 and 2015; separately, Fujitsu has an extension to run the Government’s Emergency Alerts platform until October 2029, worth £9.6 million.