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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS

Multiple Virtual System (MVS) Mainframe (Hosting)

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£15.3m
Awarded7 Dec 2018
Published8 Oct 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£15.3mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

A 2 year G Cloud 10 framework contract with DXC for the provision of Platform as a Service (PaaS) covering the DWP Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) service.

The contract commenced 18 December 2018 with a forecasted spend of £15.3m.

The MVS PaaS supports DWP front line critical systems.

The platform is expected to be decommissioned at the end of this contract.

Key requirements

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The platform is expected to be decommissioned

The platform is expected to be decommissioned at the end of this contract.

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