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Department for Work & Pensions
Working Age Services Project Zora - Application Decomposition & Microservices Transition
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £34,500,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 4 Jun 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
Project Zora is a strategic programme within the Department for Work and Pensions’ Working Age Services portfolio, focused on improving the sustainability, agility and resilience of the Universal Credit service. It addresses the constraints of a long‑standing monolithic application estate to enable more responsive delivery of policy change, user needs and future service evolution.
The programme will progressively decompose elements of the Universal Credit application into more modular, loosely coupled components aligned to a modern, microservices‑based architecture. This includes re‑architecting systems and supporting capabilities to reduce interdependencies, improve deployment flexibility, and enable faster, safer change while maintaining continuity of service.
Through this transformation, Project Zora aims to establish reusable platform and service capabilities that can be iterated over time and support wider Working Age Services objectives. Delivery is expected to require specialist digital, engineering and delivery expertise across analysis, design, build and transition activity, with a clear focus on managing operational risk, supporting user‑centred outcomes and delivering long‑term value for money.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 72200000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 18 Apr 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 18 April 2026.
Release 035413-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 18 Apr 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 18 April 2026. Stated change: Amending the contract term from 4 year total to 3 years total inclusive of extension period
Release 035414-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 4 Jun 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 4 June 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 052553-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-0685ce
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Framework
- Yes, as recorded by the source
- Last verified
- Wed 10 Jun 2026, 08:10 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 22:33 BST
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