2.55 The contract for ICL to continue to provide and service the infrastructure element of Libra was signed on 23 July 2002.10 ICL had written off £32.5 million as a result of cancellation of the software development element of the contract. The Department expects to sign contracts by January 2003 with STL for the software application and towards the end of 2003 with a systems integrator to roll out the application. Figure 15 shows how the different elements of Libra will now link together.
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10 The Department had planned to sign the deal on 30 May 2002, but dealing with the concerns of the Office of Government Commerce and the Treasury delayed the signing until 23 July 2002.