IT

The National Reseach Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) is inviting companies to tender for a contract regarding the development of a GNSS data processing system. The tender is open for all companies with classification A,B,C or D. The tender is conducted under local regulations. 

The Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems (J-LIS) is planning to sue Fujitsu for damages due to persistent problems with the issuing of ‘My Number’ cards, the social and fiscal number system introduced in Japan last year. Fujitsu is a major supplier of IT systems to Japanese government organisations and was awarded the contract to develop the system.  J-LIS has come to the conclusion that the system is not meeting the standards that were set when the system was tendered.

Nikkei IT-news service website IT-pro reports that the Fujitsu Group expects to earn close to half a billion euro’s on government-issued contracts related to the introduction of ‘My number’.