Two of the four contractors vying for an initial 700 million-pound deal to streamline the British Ministry of Defence's logistics information systems have been selected to compete in the competition's final stages.
The Defence Equipment & Support arm of the MoD said in a statement today that Boeing and a consortium involving Fujitsu Defence and Lockheed Martin have been short-listed for the final stage of the bidding for the Future Logistics Information System (FLIS) program.
The ousted bidders were a team composed of Steria/EADS Defence and an IBM/EDS partnership.
FLIS is intended to pull together Britain's piecemeal logistics information networks into a scheme controlled by the MoD and its chosen industry partner.
The project will replace 120 legacy contracts - some of which are 15 years old - serviced by more than 50 different contractors with a single incentivized deal for the winning bidder.
A winner could be announced by early 2010.
The deal will cover a nine-month phase-in period and a 10-year support agreement. A second phase aimed at transformation of logistics information business processes could follow in the next few years.
The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is ready to test a few components that soldiers may have in their hands by 2010.
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