The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has signed a four-year, £5.3 million contract with NTT Data for application development services on a low code platform.
It marks a continuation of the organisation’s move towards the technology – which enables organisations to design digital services through configuration rather than detailed coding – following an interim agreement last year to use the Outsystems platform.
The contract with NTT Data, which is a global partner of Outsystems, came into force at the beginning of this month.
The award notice states: “Low code application development allows the organisation to benefit from the decreased development times and reduced skill set that are associated with low code platforms (when compared to traditional development).
“The tools to build and manage the deployment of applications as well as the infrastructure to host them are all provided and managed by the low code provider.”
The interim contract, which ran for a year until the new one began, was directly with Outsystems. The award notice says it would provide user packs for 8,300 internal and 10,000 external users, with unlimited application objects, high availability and a standby replica in the production database.
The contract reinforces NTT Data’s position as a major supplier to CPS: earlier this year it won a place on a call-off arrangement valued at up to £50 million to support work programmes at CPS.
