Swansea Council has delayed its planned IT outsourcing
contract with Capgemini for the second time.
Sixty six IT staff were expecting to transfer to Capgemini on 1
November, but this cannot happen until the contract has been
signed.
Swansea Council spokesman Lee Wenham said, "We hope to sign the
contract shortly and staff will be told as soon as possible after
it has taken place so the transfer may proceed."
A Capgemini spokesman said, "The transfer has been put back. The
negotiations are ongoing. It will not go on much longer."
Swansea Council's IT staff went on strike for two months last
year when they discovered by reading an advert in a European
journal that the council planned to outsource their department.
In July, Swansea Council said, "The two parties expect to sign
the contract no later than September and for those ICT staff who
are in scope to transfer to Capgemini on 1 October."
In September the council delayed the transfer of its IT
department to Capgemini by a month and cut the number of staff to
be transferred from 73 to 66.