The corporation and Blighty's Department of Health (DoH) have been at the negotiating table for months now over the company's bungled delivery of the £2.9bn Lorenzo system that was supposed to store citizens' health records.
Under the terms of this fresh deal, the integrator still has access to up to £1.9bn in patient database orders from NHS trusts, but there is no guarantee it will bag them.
CSC said: "Under the new agreement the NHS will not be subject to trust volume commitment and CSC has agreed to non-exclusive deployment rights in its designated regions. Trusts will receive ongoing managed services from CSC for a period of five years from the date of Lorenzo deployment by a trust, provided deployment is complete or substantially complete by July 2016."
CSC will pocket £68m from government for work delivered to date and the net settlement of mutual claims, but this pales into insignificance compared to the initial size of the project signed in 2002.
Source: The Register
