Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Homes England · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Manuka AI Ltd SME
- Value
- £555,000
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- IT services · System management software development services (CPV 72212781)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 May 2026
- Published11 Jun 2026Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
The Agency's Data Platform built on Azure Databricks in 2019-20, requires improvements to support its expanded use for production grade data management, decision support and analytics. The services are outcome-based and project-driven, intended to improve the operational reliability, DevOps/DataOps maturity, and architectural robustness of the Authority's enterprise Azure-based data platform. Strategic objectives behind this contract are: - Improve operational reliability and platform resilience. - Enable multi-developer DevOps workflows across Sandbox, Dev, Pre-Prod, and Production. - Standardise Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform. - Implement structured CI/CD using Azure DevOps. - Strengthen DataOps governance and controlled data promotion. - Reduce configuration drift and production risk. - Increase integration with GIS and other agency data systems. - expand support for Data Science, AI and handling unstructured data at scale. Option to extend: 2 x 12 Months
About the supplier
Manuka AI Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10403421).