Contract award · 3 Aug 2021

Central Digital Architecture & Associated Services

Money and Pensions Service awarded “Central Digital Architecture & Associated Services” to Capgemini UK PLC for £57m. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionIT servicesEast of England

Value £57m

Awarded without open competition

Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.

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Buyer
Money and Pensions Service · Arms Length body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions
Value
£56,979,971
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date3 Aug 2021
  2. Published2 May 2025Published 1368 days after the contract date

Description

The Government intends to deliver pensions dashboards through the Pension Schemes Act 2021 and The Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022 (as amended by The Pensions Dashboards (Amendment) Regulations 2023). This legislation sets out the requirement for pension providers and schemes to connect to the pension dashboards system. It also empowers the Money and Pensions Service ("MaPS") through the Pensions Dashboards Programme ("PDP"), to create pensions dashboards standards with the approval of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. This contract will deliver the major components of the digital architecture, including the pension finder service (PFS), the consent and authorisation service, and the governance register. This contract was procured via a call off via a mini-competition from framework RM3084 - Technology Services 2. PLEASE NOTE: This Contract Award Notice is being published to FTS merely for completeness and to allow publication of an F20 Modification notice. In complia…

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