The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has published a notice for a Pan Government Collaborative Framework Agreement to provide a wide range of technology services across the UK public sector.
The contract notice says it could be worth up to £2 billion over four years, four times the £500 million value stated in the initial prior information notice, which also forecast that the contract notice would be published in June.
The contract notice, published on 28 October, offers no reason for the delay or the increase in the maximum value of spending.
The framework is divided into eight lots. Lot 1 covers technology strategy and service design valued up to £120 million, while lot 2 is focused on transition and transformation, up to £260 million. Lots 3a to 3d are focused on operational services for end users, operational management, technical management and application and data management respectively. The four have a total estimated value of £940 million, with application and data management making up more than a third of this.
Lot 4, for major services transformation programmes, has an estimated maximum value of £580 million. It includes services offered through the first six lots, with suppliers eligible for a place if they are successful in applying for these, and also covers management services and programme delivery. Lot 5 concerns service integration and management, with a maximum value of £100 million.
Suppliers have until 3 December to apply.
In August, CCS published a contract notice for its Digital Capability for Health agreement, a similarly-wide framework for use across health and social care organisations, worth up to £800 million.
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