These contracts are forecast to deliver cost savings of more than GBP100 million over the next seven years on comparable IT services. The firms say that they will ensure more efficient, effective and joined up services to Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) clients and staff.
Award of the infrastructure contract to Atos Origin and the applications contract to LogicaCMG comes at the end of a two-year competitive procurement process. The process began with consultation between the Office for Government Commerce (OGC), the DCA and the IT industry through the Intellect Concept Viability Forum and was intended to deliver the best possible commercial agreement for all parties involved.
The new contracts are based on the latest relevant OGC model contracts, which have been developed to capture best practice from pan-government IT contracting. The model contracts were developed in certain areas to reflect the specific needs of the DCA, such as recognizing the multi-supplier environment.
