IBM pulled out of the £55m contract to upgrade Co-op’s systems last year, following huge delays and a mountain of disputes, court documents show

Tech giant IBM pulled out of a £55m contract to upgrade Co-op’s technology in July. Now the insurer has filed a massive £130m law suit against it.

The court documents, in which IBM is slammed as “reckless”, reveal the extent of the massive fall out between the two companies.

They portray a project that may have been doomed from the start, raising questions over whether IBM would ever have been able to fulfil its end of the deal.

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