The Department of Work and Pensions is being forced to reveal some of the details of a £47m Gateway contract with Atos Origin.

Peter Collingbourne made a request for details of the contract in December 2007, and some of the requested details were released. Other parts were refused because the DWP argued that releasing the details would damage it own and Atos’ commercial interests.

Collingbourne, who from what we can work out, is a Phd student in a department of Computing at Imperial college is a serial FOI requester. Here are his requests.

A tribunal has now ruled that many of the previously withheld details, apart from the

financial model and the location and specification of the Atos data centre, will now be released.

Atos was the sole bidder for the contract. Does anybody know why the information was requested in the first place and what could be interested.

The DWP has 30 days, from 20 September, to provide the information.

Here is a story about this on Out-Law.com

Here is the ruling