IT company ordered to pay ferry firm £1.2m

A judge has ordered an IT firm to pay £1.2 million compensation to the holding company of Caledonian Macbrayne ferries over a contractual dispute involving a new ticketing system.

ATOS IT Services (UK) Limited will have to hand David Macbrayne Ltd a total of £1,202,130 following a judgment made yesterday by Lord Doherty at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

The ferry operator took the service providers to Scotland’s highest civil court because it believed ATOS had not followed the terms of a contract made between the two in August 2014.

Under the terms of the agreement, ATOS was supposed to provide Macbrayne with a new reservation system. David Macbrayne terminated the contract with ATOS in July 2016.