The department has just released an early planning notice, providing insight for potential providers that could deliver a major agreement covering maintenance and ongoing support for proprietary IT hosting infrastructure
The Home Office has shed light on a plan to identify a major tech partner and appoint the chosen firm to a £100m-plus contract to manage the department’s datacentre infrastructure.
In a commercial planning notice for a “hosting capability supplier” contract, the department indicates that it expects the agreement in question to come into effect in December 2026 and run for an initial term of three years.
The deal is forecast to be worth £102m to the chosen provider.
For this price, the firm in question will be expected to offer the Home Office a comprehensive support offering for the organisation’s estate of on-premises infrastructure.
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The notice adds: “The Home Office Enterprise Networks and Infrastructure function is preparing a further competition to contract a hosting capability supplier to provide 24/7 operational support to the Home Office’s datacentres, including maintenance, engineering and service management services.”
The department is currently running an early-engagement process, through which suppliers have until 3 April to participate.
Following this, “instructions will be sent to suppliers listed” on lot six of government’s Technology Services 4 framework – a near £20bn buying vehicle launched in December.
The sixth lot, which is intended to address public sector buyers’ needs for “major technology services transformation programmes”, features 67 suppliers.
