"This would allow the company to hike prices unfairly or reduce service levels."

How can Crapita's service levels be reduced any further? What a fucking joke

when I read the title I thought that someone had tried to take over crapita and failed. There's a company which deserves to be shot through both lungs and thrown through the airlock.

Make their own SIMS like system?

Think about it. Sims costs about £2K a year and then £1.5K a year for support (Very needed).

£3.5K per school.

There's about 20,000 schools in England, so that's £70m a year spent on sims. (I know not all schools use sims, guesstimates)

You give me £10m and I could easily produce software to rival sims and no doubt better it by far, with change.

Then distribute this to every school free of charge. The savings would be huge.

Good one... I didn't think that they could reduce their level of service any further.

They should have allowed it on condition the post-merger name was changed to IBS Crapita.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome sums them up perfectly.