Published date: 18 July 2022

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 30 June 2022, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,120,910

Procurement reference

tender_309756/1089105

Published date

18 July 2022

Closing date

30 June 2022

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 July 2022

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

DWP Digital manages a number of Analytics platforms on premise and in cloud (AWS/Azure) that are utilised by teams including IRIS, Ops Analytics, Cyber Security and individual Digital service design teams. A lot has been learnt from their usage, but more is needed to build on this investment and scale to support the demand, standardised ways of working and the security profile. This is backed up by Analytics being recognised as one of the common reusable services in Digital's Enterprise Architecture.
Post-Covid the user demands for these platforms significantly increased primarily in response to the Fraud and Error responses as well as operational performance. This has resulted in a need for more data quicker, increased cloud elasticity for greater response times, support for a greater number of users with a lower barrier of entry, increased collaboration between teams and the flexibility to innovate with new tools.
A partner was brought in to develop this service and accelerate our cloud adoption as DWP did not have enough capacity or skills in order to complete the work itself. Kainos were awarded the contract and have built a series of MVPs deployed to production and have provided that live running service.
This is a new G-Cloud contract for Kainos to perform an accelerated handover to DWP personnel now that DWP have increased internal resource capacity in the Software Engineering, Platform Engineering and Data Engineering capabilities.

Award information

Awarded date

30 June 2022

Contract start date

1 July 2022

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Total value of contract

£1,120,910

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Kainos

Address

4-6 Upper Crescent Belfast BT7 1NT

Reference

Companies House number: NI019370

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Peel Park Brunel Way
Blackpool
FY4 5ES
England

Email

adrian.sage@dwp.gov.uk