UDAT Application Remediation Discovery

Contract summary

Industry

• Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£239,700

Procurement reference

CF-0013700DQH00000FUqLV2A1

Published date

22 December 2025

Closing date

19 December 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 January 2026

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

Provision of a Discovery phase for the Application Remediation project on a Service basis.

Within DWP there are several UDATs (User Developed Applications and Tools) that have been developed by Business Users in MS Access/Excel using VBA Macros.

There are currently 565 UDATs that are still in use.

Within DWP a product called CITRIX Explorer is used to allow Users with Cloud First Devices to access UDATs stored on Legacy Filestore e.g. Shared Folders.

At the moment use of CITRIX to access UDATs is a blocker.

One option would be to move the UDATs to Cloud Based Filestore such as Azure Files.

DWP therefore need to run a Discovery Phase to identify how many of the 565 UDATs are dependent upon CITRIX for access, and also to confirm how many would be viable candidates to move to Azure Files and the effort/cost involved to complete that exercise and what remediation would potentially be needed to ensure the UDATs performed when hosted in Azure Files.

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Award information

Awarded date

22 December 2025

Contract start date

1 January 2026

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Total value of contract

£239,700

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

UBDS IT Consulting Limited

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About the buyer

Contact name

Desktop Commercial Team

Address

Peel Park
Blackpool
FY4 5ES
GB

Telephone

01253

Email

ed.desktopbag@dwp.gov.uk