The Post Office has agreed to extend the agreement to use its controversial system for another year.
It pays an additional £ 41m to Company Company Fujitsu to use the horizon until March 2027.
The accounting system was at the center of the Post Office Scandal where more than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after their branch accounts were mistakenly lost.
A post office spokesman said it was “committed to switching from Fujitsu and the Horizon system as soon as possible”.
“We brought in a different supplier to get over the horizon while a new system was developed, and this process got in the way,” they added. We expect to award a contract for a new management supplier in July 2026, according to current times. “
Sources told the BBC the contract could be extended until 2028 as the new supplier comes to run over the horizon used by sub-postmasters in UK branches.
But the replacement horizon is still a long way off.
The Post Office is working on a project called NBIT to build a new alternative to the home, but there are growing concerns about its increasing cost and complexity.
The NBIT was chosen shortly after new Post Office Chaird Nigel Railton launched his plan to turn around in November 2024.
Post Office Bosses have switched to purchasing software from external suppliers and the procurement process for it has begun.
Fujitsu executives apologized for the company’s role in the scandal, claiming that the horizon had errors and flaws from the beginning.
Its European Iggras boss, Paul Patterson, acknowledged that Fujitsu had a “moral obligation” to contribute financially but did not set a timeline.