MPs on the Business and Trade Select Committee have written to the secretary of state to demand answers over Fujitsu’s inclusion in frameworks worth more than £50bn in total.
Fujitsu is at the centre of the Post Office scandal, with its software having caused unexplained shortfalls that subpostmasters were blamed for, with many wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.
It was in January 2024, following ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office scandal, that public anger boiled over. It was then that Fujitsu, which had just had its role in the scandal detailed to the wider public, implemented a pause on bidding for government contracts, while the public inquiry – which began in early 2022 – was ongoing. The final report from the inquiry is expected early next year.
Fujitsu’s self-imposed ban, which contained heavy caveats, stated that it could not bid for new public sector customers. However, this did not stop the supplier winning hundreds of millions worth of deals – and now Fujitsu has landed a lucrative government contract.
Answers needed
MPs want reassurances that Fujitsu’s inclusion in the frameworks will not lead to new public sector customers while the supplier’s self-imposed ban is in play.
Business and Trade Select Committee chair Liam Byrne MP wrote to minister John Reynalds following news that Fujitsu has been included in huge government procurement frameworks: “We recognise that the appointment to a framework does not constitute an award of a contract. However, these frameworks allow suppliers to compete for opportunities across government and the wider public sector.
“Given Fujitsu’s moratorium on bidding for work with new government customers, please could you clarify: whether Fujitsu’s appointment to these frameworks enables it to bid for work from public sector bodies that are not already customers? The governments understanding of how Fujitsu’s participation with these frameworks accords with its moratorium? What discussions, if any, the government has had with Fujitsu regrading its participation in these frameworks and compliance with its own moratorium? Whether Fujitsu has provided government with any assurance that it will not use these frameworks to obtain work from new public sector customers while its moratorium remains in effect?”
Byrne demanded answers by August 12.
The four frameworks
Fujitsu was confirmed in July 2026 as a supplier on four government procurement frameworks by the Government Commercial Agency (GCA), worth more than £54bn in total.
On 24 July, Fujitsu was named on the G Cloud 15 framework, which is worth £16.8bn in total. According to the GCA, this replaces G-Cloud 14 in providing “a large variety of cloud-based services from a range of suppliers, including: cloud hosting services, cloud software services and cloud support services”.
Just days earlier, Fujitsu was named on the £19.2bn Technology Services 4 framework, which the GCA said “is for the provision of technology and digital consultancy services, transition and SIAM, end user services, infrastructure services, live service management and maintenance, asset management, application development and lifecycle management services, data management, security management and transformation services”.
On the same day, it was named on the Transport Technology framework, which is a £4.2bn framework for “technology goods and services for sustainable urban, rural and intercity transport and mobility”.
A day earlier, Fujitsu was named on the £14bn Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 framework, which “provides the public sector with access to agile development and user-centred design services” and “includes buying digital specialists to deliver specific outcomes, or to support urgent needs”.
Computer Weekly has revealed some worrying facts about the inner workings of Fujitsu in the UK. In April 2024, just a couple of months after the supplier banned itself from bidding for government contracts, Computer Weekly reported that the company’s public sector boss was instructing staff on how to get around the self-imposed ban.
In October 2025, after the Post Office scandal public inquiry chair published his first report, which linked Fujitsu’s software problems to 13 suicides, a senior executive at the supplier said the report “was not that bad”.
The Post Office scandal was first exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009, revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffered due to the accounting software.
