National Highways has appointed Version 1 as a long term strategic cloud partner to support its digital transformation.
They have agreed on a five-year contract, with the possibility of a two-year extension, valued at £47.5 million for managed services and collaboration across the agency’s infrastructure and platforms.
The company has been providing cross-cloud adoption, implementation and support services to National Highways for six years, providing over 500 cloud specialists and accreditation for all the main cloud platforms, and the new contract will build on the relationship.
Craig Bromage, head of infrastructure and platforms at National Highways, said: “We were looking for a long term partner to work with us in a modern, agile DevSecOps approach and having the skills we need to deliver our innovative strategy to meet both current and future organisational skills.
“Version 1 has already helped us make significant progress in transforming and transitioning legacy infrastructure to our cloud offering. We are very excited to be moving into the next phase, expanding the cloud capability and modernising our ways of working as we continue to deliver and improve our service to road users, making journeys better and safer.”
Clarity of direction
Guy Hodges, director of transport at Version 1, commented: “The National Highways modern ways of working and automation of platform technologies stand it apart from other organisations. The clarity of direction and defined ways of working that it has within its infrastructure and platform teams are beyond exceptional. This should be applauded, and Version 1 is delighted to be part of this partnership for the next seven years.”
National Highways, the non-departmental public body that manages the roads network in England, has a digital, data and technology strategy for 2023-25 that includes transforming services across asset management, customer focused and corporate functions, building technical capabilities and supporting its net zero agenda.
The latter element involves mapping biodiversity corridors and calculating carbon data.
