Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures
Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak
Capita, despite its troubled history with the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS), has been awarded a £31 million contract by the UK government to build a public health contact center. This center, known as the Single Service Centre (SSC), could be put into action during another pandemic, with its workload potentially reaching £350 million.
The contract, awarded to Capita by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), a Department of Health and Social Care agency, is set to last three years with an initial start date of November.
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