Department retains core supplier to provide overall project support to the closing months of the HHT programme intended to enable the closure of onsite hosting and adoption of cloud services
The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a multimillion-pound deal to support the final months of a five-year programme to safely shut down legacy hosting facilities and move systems and data to cloud environments.
The Hybrid Hosting Transformation (HHT) project, on which work began in 2021, is intended to support the DWP in delivering “a 100% cloud-adoption strategy [and] fully migrating away from OPH (on-premises hosting) to flexible and pay-for-use cloud hosting services by May 2026”, according to previously published programme commercial documents.
Online procurement archives show that, in the past half decade, the department has awarded around 20 separate contracts to support the implementation of HHT. These deals are collectively valued at about £35m, with key providers including vendors IBM and Oracle, which have been awarded contracts cumulatively worth £5.9m and £2.5m, respectively. Procurement and sourcing firm Pixel Global has also won three deals worth a combined £4.3m.
But HHT’s largest supplier has been Cheshire-based digital transformation and cloud implementation specialist Redesmere, with which the DWP has entered into a series of agreements since 2022. These deals have been worth a collective £16.7m.
The most recent of these – which is valued at £3.79m – came into effect at the start of this month and runs until the scheduled completion date of the cloud scheme. During this time, Redesmere will provide the DWP with “overall delivery enablement management services”, according to the heading of the contract notice.
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“[The supplier will provide] overall programme delivery services to decommission legacy OPH platforms, move applications to cloud, reduce the DWP OPH datacentre footprint and reduce the associated technology debt,” the notice adds. “This call-off contract starts on 1 May 2025 and is valid until 31March 2026. This call-off contract can be extended by the buyer for one period of up to 12 months, by giving the supplier four weeks written notice before its expiry.”
The latest engagement follows on from two separate contracts between Redesmere and the DWP, the initial agreed term of each of which was scheduled to end on 31 March. These two deals were cumulatively worth about £11.3m to the tech supplier.The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a multimillion-pound deal to support the final months of a five-year programme to safely shut down legacy hosting facilities and move systems and data to cloud environments.
The Hybrid Hosting Transformation (HHT) project, on which work began in 2021, is intended to support the DWP in delivering “a 100% cloud-adoption strategy [and] fully migrating away from OPH (on-premises hosting) to flexible and pay-for-use cloud hosting services by May 2026”, according to previously published programme commercial documents.
Online procurement archives show that, in the past half decade, the department has awarded around 20 separate contracts to support the implementation of HHT. These deals are collectively valued at about £35m, with key providers including vendors IBM and Oracle, which have been awarded contracts cumulatively worth £5.9m and £2.5m, respectively. Procurement and sourcing firm Pixel Global has also won three deals worth a combined £4.3m.
But HHT’s largest supplier has been Cheshire-based digital transformation and cloud implementation specialist Redesmere, with which the DWP has entered into a series of agreements since 2022. These deals have been worth a collective £16.7m.
The most recent of these – which is valued at £3.79m – came into effect at the start of this month and runs until the scheduled completion date of the cloud scheme. During this time, Redesmere will provide the DWP with “overall delivery enablement management services”, according to the heading of the contract notice.
“[The supplier will provide] overall programme delivery services to decommission legacy OPH platforms, move applications to cloud, reduce the DWP OPH datacentre footprint and reduce the associated technology debt,” the notice adds. “This call-off contract starts on 1 May 2025 and is valid until 31March 2026. This call-off contract can be extended by the buyer for one period of up to 12 months, by giving the supplier four weeks written notice before its expiry.”
The latest engagement follows on from two separate contracts between Redesmere and the DWP, the initial agreed term of each of which was scheduled to end on 31 March. These two deals were cumulatively worth about £11.3m to the tech supplier.
