The BBC's now-cancelled Digital Media Initiative, handed first to Siemens in 2008, then taken back "in-house" in 2010, went out to tender for "implementation" in 2011. A consortium of three firms won the contract. Mediasmiths, with offices in London, Belfast, MediaCityUK, Stockholm and Sydney, worked on media management and video processing components; Vidispine, based in Stockholm and Denver offer software "application programming interfaces": and Computacenter, based in Hatfield, six European countries and South Africa, provided the IT infrastructure.
Computacenter list Brian McBride as one of their non-executive directors. He joined the BBC Executive Board in the same capacity in March this year. Spookily, today Computacenter proposed a one-off pay-out of 48.7p per share. CEO Mike Norris said "We are very pleased to confirm, as previously announced, the return of approximately £75 million to our shareholders. The cash-generative nature of Computacenter's business has resulted in a net cash balance in excess of our current needs."
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