MoD bonus payments, or is that chicken feed?
The MoD have had a thorough kicking over its Civil Service bonus payments but are in for a real hiding in the press when the scale of the potential losses due to errors in the much vaunted Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system become more widely known.
Towards the end of 2004 the MoD awarded a contract to EDS for the implementation of an intranet based pay and personnel administration system.
EDS were to implement a Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system for Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency which was supposed to deliver £600 million savings to the MoD over 10 years with the contract due to end in November 2009
JPA represented a key element of the MoD’s Defence Change Programme and, as a flagship project, was cited as a benchmark for future relationships between government and the IT supplier community.