Introduction

EDS is currently the biggest supplier of IT services to the UK government. It is one of only 14 companies that the Treasury's Office of Government Commerce describe as working as a 'Strategic Partner' with Government.

How EDS is already helping Modernise Government

EDS is at the forefront of Modernising Government.

In partnership with Government, EDS is:

• creating a modern, on-line Employment Service, providing the information technology to unify employment and benefit services through the Jobcentre Plus Agency. This has included making all 400,000 job vacancies handled by the Employment Service available on-line at specially developed Jobpoint kiosks. These are being installed at all 1,100 UK Jobcentres as well as public locations such as supermarkets. These allow jobseekers to quickly find suitable job opportunities throughout the country and represent a major improvement on the traditional system of cards and notice boards displaying only local vacancies.
  
  
• working with the Department of Work and Pensions and Inland Revenue to create a modern welfare to work system, delivering benefits and pensions in a fast, efficient way and integrating tax and benefits to ensure work pays;
  
  
• modernising the tax system and delivering the new tax credits. EDS also helped the Inland Revenue with its implementation of the most fundamental reform of the UK personal tax system in the last 50 years, the introduction of self-assessment for taxpayers. The work involved combining outdated databases into one state-of-the-art database that holds tax-related information on some 9 million UK taxpayers. Further enhancements enable taxpayers to file their Self Assessment Returns via the Internet;
  
  
• applying the latest information technology to help the Prison Service and Court Service modernise their operations and developing a Crime Reporting Information System for the Metropolitan Police;
  
  
• modernising the IT systems for the DVLA and developing a new smart travel card for London Transport;
  
  
• helping MoD set up a new defence-wide armed forces' pay and administration system.