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

Post Office CEO Neil Brocklehurst said: "Ending our contract with Fujitsu is a critical milestone in Post Office's transformation, and today's agreement secures the transition away from Fujitsu and over to Accenture safely and responsibly to achieve our target of summer 2027.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 10, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC
Key points
  • Accenture will take over running the Horizon system, which was at the center of a string of miscarriages of justice, from September 2027, after winning a £410 million contract in May this year.
  • Accenture is set to "walk in and take over" the current Horizon system by assuming day-to-day operations from Fujitsu, as well as developing the back-end of the new system to replace Horizon.
  • The current contract runs until March 2027, and the publicly owned company has announced a short, time-limited contract extension to cover the transition.

The Post Office, Accenture, and Fujitsu have agreed that Fujitsu will hand over the operation of Horizon to Accenture between 1 June and 1 September 2027, with the final date set to be confirmed in March 2027.

Additional details
  • The Post Office began rolling out the legacy Horizon IT system for accounting in 1999, along with two subsequent upgrades.
  • The electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) and back-end finance system was first implemented by ICL, a UK tech firm majority-owned by Fujitsu in the 1990s and which it fully acquired in 1998.
  • From 1999 until 2015, around 736 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted and convicted over Horizon errors, devastating lives in the process.
  • The company committed to not bid for new public sector contracts while the inquiry into the Horizon scandal continues.
  • Meanwhile, the Post Office is developing a replacement for the aging system to serve its network of 11,500 branches.

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