Department reveals new tech engagement worth about £11m a year and awarded to the US software giant, covering a range of infrastructure, software, and platform technologies, delivered as a service
The Home Office has agreed a £50m-plus deal with Oracle for cloud-based software provision.
A newly published commercial notice reveals that the two parties have agreed to enter into a five-year contract, beginning at the end of next months and lasting until late 2030. The document adds that the deal will cover “the provision of Oracle SaaS, IaaS and PaaS licence subscriptions” – referring to software-, infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings.
The text of the contract reveals that a little under £11m will be spent on services during the first year of the engagement. A similar amount will then be committed during each of the subsequent four years, taking total charges to £53.5m. With VAT is also included, the Home Office is likely to spent about £64m over the coming half decade.
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In addition to the core licensing services, Oracle will also provide the department with “a notifications portal… [that] will provide metrics on the service availability level for cloud Services”.
“The [Home Office] will also be able to use the Portal to access other information about the services,” the contract adds.
The home affairs department – alongside the Ministry of Justice, Defra, and the Department for Work and Pensions – is part of the Synergy cluster created by government’s shared-services programme. A year ago Synergy chose Oracle as the core back-office software platform on which the four departments will unite.
