sentences:  Four clusters were awarded in two tranches on 8 and 23 December 2003, with the fifth on 26 January 2004.However, in July 2007 Accenture withdrew from their 2 clusters, and in May 2008 Fujitsu had their contract terminated, meaning that half the original contractors had dropped out of the project.As of May 2008, two IT providers were LSPs for the main body of the programme