Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
H M Revenue & Customs
Customs House Annexe,20 Lower Thames Street
LONDON
EC3R6EE
Contact
Daniel Gauntlett
Telephone
+44 3000573933
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKI31 - Camden and City of London
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
National or federal Agency/Office
one.5) Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Provision of 'Securing our Technical Future' ("SOTF") project services
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 72200000 - Software programming and consultancy services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Authority is responsible for the UK's tax administration and ensures that tax revenue is available to fund the UK's public services. The Authority wishes to procure a supplier of services for the provision of SOTF projects. The Supplier is a leading provider of consulting, technology, outsourcing and related services, already providing such SOTF services, and is suitably qualified and experienced to continue to provide SOTF project services.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value excluding VAT: £50,000,000
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKG - West Midlands (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The continued provision of consulting, technology, outsourcing and related services for HMRC's SOTF programme.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
Extension of initial term by 12 months by giving to the Supplier not less than 12 months' written notice before the end of the Initial Term.
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations
Explanation:
HMRC is in the process of migrating and replacing certain existing applications from existing data centres. This contract procures project services required for the migration and replacement of those applications.
Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR") provides that a contracting authority may award a public contract without prior publication of a Contract Notice where the services can only be supplied by a particular economic operator because competition is absent for technical reasons.
A different contractor cannot provide these services because only the Contractor has the knowledge of, and source code and configurations for, the applications that are to be migrated in their current form. The Contractor also holds a significant amount of knowledge about how the entire HMRC digital estate operates and interoperates. This knowledge is required to properly conduct the migration approach considering its impact on different HMRC Services, several of which are classed as Critical National Infrastructure and/or fall within the remit of Secure Customer Records. In addition, a number of the services rely on technology that is decades old, and only the Contractor has the skills that can cover the breadth of this technology.
Even if it were technically possible to have a new contractor provide some of the services under this contract, the cost and time involved in learning the breadth of the HMRC digital estate required for all of the services would be wholly uneconomic and disproportionate. The migration is anticipated to occur within the next two years. Undertaking the required knowledge transfer would take approximately 12 months, meaning that the migration services started by other HMRC contractors would be delayed and incur significant wasted expenditure.
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
Section five. Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
30 September 2022
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Capgemini UK Ltd
Woking
GU21 6DB
Telephone
+44 7920781921
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
Companies House
943935
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £50,000,000
Total value of the contract/lot: £50,000,000
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
Cabinet Office
London
Country
United Kingdom