Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
The UK Home Office has awarded £28 million in contract extensions to two incumbent tech suppliers, PA Consulting and Mastek, for the Atlas immigration and asylum system. The contracts were awarded without competition due to a legal challenge that derailed an earlier procurement process. The Home Office is working to ensure service continuity while it prepares for a new procurement process, which is expected to be split into asylum and non-asylum immigration systems.
- ▪The Home Office awarded PA Consulting a five-month contract extension worth £13.5 million and Mastek a four-month extension worth £15 million.
- ▪The contracts were awarded without competition after a legal challenge by Mastek derailed an earlier procurement process.
- ▪The new procurement process is expected to be split into asylum and non-asylum immigration systems, with a value of £336 million.
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