The Home Office has taken on PA Consulting as the provider of technical architecture services for its migration and borders portfolio (MBTP).
They have agreed on a four-year contract that came into force last month and is valued at £85 million.
Details within the contract award notice say that PA Consulting will provide specialist technical architecture capabilities that will be defined on an iterative basis to support the implementation of technology projects and platforms in the MBTP. These are going to support new business services for the department’s border operations.
Solutions are to be designed under the principle of ‘design once and design jointly to maximise re-use’.
The contract award marks the latest step in modernising the technology estate for the control of borders and migration. In November of last year the Government announced the provision of £58 million to boost border security with an emphasis on spending on technology, and prior to that the Home Office had agreed on a £22 million contract with Deloitte for the company to support the Future Border and Immigration System programme.
The latter involves making the process to apply to live in the UK digital by default.
