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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.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The platform is expected to be decommissioned

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

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

G-Cloud / Digital MarketplaceFrameworks & routes to market
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.

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