The UK's tax collector awarded Accenture a £70.4 million contract for business application support and maintenance services without competition. The contract, initially awarded in 2022, covers the National Insurance and PAYE System (NPS), a critical national infrastructure system. Accenture received an additional £35.2 million for 'additional works' due to a significant increase in project scope.
The UK tax collector has handed Accenture an additional £35.2 million without competition on a £70.4 million contract which was never tendered. His Majesty's Revenue & Customs ( HMRC ) said the global tech consultancy and services biz got the extra sum for 'additional works' on the original contract, awarded in 2022.
The contract is for business application support and maintenance services for HMRC's National Insurance and PAYE System (NPS), which is part of the UK's critical national infrastructure, collecting 40 percent of revenues into HM Treasury with nearly 40,000 users in HMRC and the Department of Work and Pensions. The system was first introduced in 2009, when Accenture provided application development and support services to the £10 billion Aspire contract, a tech deal which also included Capgemini, Fujitsu and BT. 'Due to the technical risk, age and intricate interdependencies of the NPS solution, the support services could currently only be provided by Accenture,' the award notice said. 'In order to make the services suitable for competition in future and reduce vendor lock-in, the new contract includes modernization services which will deliver an 'NPS Disaggregation Programme.' This programme of work will disaggregate the NPS solution into six components to provide more open and independently maintainable business focused services,' the notice said.Accenture buys Indian chip design firm to expand semiconductor smarts In the most recent procurement award to Accenture, HMRC said the contract was increased by £35.2 million without a new procurement procedure because there had 'been a significant increase in the project work which was not envisaged and catered for at the time of the direct award.' It said the enlarged contract fee would 'allow the continued provision of critical NPS services support to major transformational projects and the continuation of the disaggregation progra
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