UK government must end its boycott of British innovation, says Megaslice

""If an organisation has performed so badly for its customers that it has become a national scandal and warranted its own TV drama, surely it's time the government spent its money elsewhere," Megawarne said."

""With so much public money wasted on technology that isn't fit for purpose, and in this case fraudulently criminalised people, the budget for real innovation continues to shrink. We are failing to support the next generation of founders who are building genuinely innovative businesses, instead recycling contracts to the same organisations that have failed us before.""

""Current approaches to adopting new technology are overcomplicated and painfully slow," he said. "Scoring sheets don't capture innovation. If the government actually engaged with businesses instead of"

The government awarded Fujitsu a place on a public-sector framework worth up to £984 million despite the company's central role in developing and supporting the Post Office Horizon IT system that led to the wrongful prosecution of 736 subpostmasters. Fujitsu had previously committed not to bid for new public contracts until the public inquiry concluded. Critics say procurement relies on rigid frameworks and arbitrary scoring systems that favour established suppliers. Mechanistic evaluation tools and scoring sheets struggle to capture real innovation. Recycled contracts and wasteful technology spending reduce budgets available to genuinely innovative British founders.

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