Fujitsu joined three UK contract frameworks during its own bidding ban.
Fujitsu holds places on three United Kingdom government frameworks while its voluntary restriction on winning new public sector customers remains in force, The Register reported.
The company committed in January 2024 to stop bidding for new government customers until the Post Office Horizon inquiry concludes. The inquiry opened in 2021 and is still running.
The three frameworks are worth 14.9, 19.08 and 2.3 billion pounds. Those are the ceilings for every supplier on them, never one vendor's revenue.
Mark Ferguson, Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary, said: "Fujitsu has assured the GCA that its voluntary moratorium fully applies to call-off contract opportunities via framework participation." He added: "GCA can confirm that Fujitsu have kept to these self-imposed restrictions."
A Fujitsu spokesperson said of a 125 million pound Northern Ireland land registry contract awarded in April 2025: "Fujitsu was named preferred bidder for this contract in 2023, before the voluntary restrictions came into place."
A framework place does not award a contract. It is a licence to be asked, and that distinction carries the whole answer.
Would your procurement team read it the same way?
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