Troubled Birmingham City Council, which was declared effectively bankrupt last year in part because of a disastrous Oracle implementation, has awarded the tech giant £10 million ($12.8 million) for additional professional services.
Lessons learned from the massive Oracle Fusion ERP failure at Birmingham City Council
In a contract award notice published late last week, the council said the deal – worth £9.987 million – started on June 4 and will end on September 3, 2026.
Birmingham City Council, Europe's largest local authority, failed to enter the new financial year in April with auditable accounting software after a disastrous implementation of Oracle Fusion, which went live almost two years late and shifted its budget from £20 million ($26 million) to 40 million pounds ($51 million).
The total cost of the project could now be as high as £131m ($163m) as it plans to completely re-implement the software "out-of-the-box" after efforts to build a bespoke solution hit the buffers.
