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DWP's exceptions to spending controls: information communications technology: July to September 2015

Updated 17 December 2015
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Tool Ref Department Organisation Name Project name Basis for expenditure approval Total Value requested (£) Total Value Approved (£) Date of approval Lead Control
HMG2172 DWP Not set HSE ISAT Contract Extension Request HSE IT estate is supported through a prime contract with SopraSteria. The one year extension to the existing contract is to enable work to be undertaken to disaggregate this service and to create an effective ICF function and develop a strategy to move HSE closer to the Government Digital Service model. 4673000 4673000 02/07/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2024a DWP Not set New State Pension Project - HMRC IT Changes DWP is seeking approval at Full Business Case to spend £4.41m over 10 months to (end of July 2015 to mid-April 2016) with Aspire (Capgemini, Accenture and Fujitsu) to make changes within the existing National Insurance and Pay as You Earn Service (NPS) supported by changes to employer submission input channels such as RTi, Basic PAYE Tool and the Channel Routing Interface Service (ChRIS). 4140000 4140000 16/06/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2213 DWP Not set New State Pension (nSP) - development of the HMRC Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) Micro Service Following the ending of contracting out Pension Scheme Administrators have requested continuing support from the Government. The IT Solution for the new GMP calculation for Micro Service will use existing government gateway credentials to auto-enrol the Pension Scheme Administrators (PSA). The GMP Micro Service will be hosted on the Multi Digital Tax Platform (MDTP). 422000 422000 07/07/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2139a DWP Not set Pensions Tracing Service Project The PTS provides a trace facility for customers to locate, and subsequently contact their work- based and personal pension providers. The project is planning to deliver a MVP for a private Beta and a public Beta. 260000 260000 14/07/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2168aa DWP Not set Personal Independent Payment (PIP) Programme - Digital Service Project The GDS assessment team has approved for PIP digital service to proceed to beta. The department is requesting to approve PIP Digital team to spend the remaining Beta funds to take the service into a private/controlled beta and release the service to a controlled number of users. 1724000 1724000 16/07/2015 IT/Digital
HMG1906a DWP Not set Secure Communications project Request to cover 3 months for the development and hosting during Beta - Sprint 1. 460000 460000 20/07/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2293 DWP Not set DWP Secure Digital Change of Address Service Project DWP wished to continue spending on its Change of Address Service. This is an interim approval request to allow work to continue on sprints of Secure Digital Change of Address 110000 110000 28/07/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2319 DWP Not set DWP Secure Digital Change of Address Service Project The request is to deliver a private Beta service for existing State Pension customers who wish to notify DWP of a Change of Address in order the prove the link with the GDS IDA/ Verify solution and their security platform. 931000 931000 11/08/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2306 DWP Not set State Pension Activation Project The NI&SP Statements project will enable citizens to review their NI position, to understand their own new State Pension amount and earliest State Pension age. The service also enables users to check the progress they are making towards qualifying for their own new State Pension (Dept. is requesting approval to move from Discovery into Alpha (and 1st month of Beta). 164000 164000 17/08/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2305 DWP Not set Fraud, Error and Debt Programme -Referral Case Management Project -Referral Capture Referral and Case Management (RCM) a project within Fraud Error and Debt Programme tasked with looking at ways in which we can reorganise our business architecture to achieve an optimum service, providing the capability to capture, route and manage fraud referrals to the correct specialist investigation/intervention teams. 302000 302000 17/08/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2339 DWP Not set Customer Information System - Remediation (CIS-R) Sprint 3 activities The project is seeking approval to extend the life of the AM Clone (performance test) environment. The primary focus for the CIS-R project is to secure CIS and improve stability of the estate, through remediating hardware and software, addressing security vulnerabilities, and migrating to a new hosting environment. 2140000 2140000 17/08/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2340 DWP Not set New State Pension (nSP) This approval is to enable suppliers to complete remaining development and environment activities for nSP(legacy). Dept. is seeking approval for Development and Test activities on PSCS and JSAPS to inhibit State Second Pension administration on new state pension claims, environment provision, prism cover and live assurance support and application maintenance support (AMS) uplifts. 1035000 1035000 24/08/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2304 DWP Not set HP Service Desk & Tooling The request is to obtain approval to spend against the existing Service Integration and Management (SIAM) services contract beyond end of October 2015, in order to provide IT Service Desk and accompanying ITSM Tooling to the Department. 4097601 4097601 25/08/2015 IT/Digital
HMG 2341 Not set Not set Universal Jobmatch-contract extension with Monster Worldwide Ltd The Universal Jobmatch service has extremely high service utilisation and has grown to become the largest job board in the UK. There are around 875,000 jobseekers using the site per month and 65,000 Employers. Our users conduct 4.5million searches a day with 6 million visits per month. The current UJ contract with Monster expires in March 2016. Work is on-going to the development of a Universal Jobmatch Replacement. A decision to extend the service for 1 year enables the Department to undertake Discovery activity on a replacement to this service. This one year extension enable us to test, learn and iterate whilst planning the eventual contract exit with Monster. 9100000 4955000 22/09/2015 Not set
HMG417b DWP Not set Security Operations Centre expansion Contract 1 which relates to procurement of specialist hardware, software & software vendor support costs. Contract 2 which relates to procurement of network equipment 923000 923000 22/09/2015 IT/Digital
HMG2410 DWP Not set Carer's Allowance Digital Service: Maintenance of the existing live service This request is a continuation of an existing live service. A new supplier contract is to be awarded that will provide technology roles to supplement the DWP in house team so that dept. can continue to maintain and iterate the existing live Carer's Allowance Digital Service. The approval being sought is to buy roles to supplement the DWP In-house team. 324675 324675 21/09/2015 IT/Digital
MCAT 202453 Not set Not set Universal Credit Universal Credit Live Service – HPES Release 10 Support for Build and Test UC2015064 1097248 1097248 08/07/2015 Not set
MCAT 202452 Not set Not set Universal Credit Universal Credit (UC) Live Service – HPES Release 10 Notification Generation Systems (NGS) 264249 264249 08/07/2015 Not set
MCAT 202465 Not set Not set Universal Credit Universal Credit (UC) Work Service Platform (WSP) Release 10 – Application Development UC/2015243 162860 162860 15/07/2015 Not set
MCAT 202464 Not set Not set Universal Credit Universal Credit Digital Service (UCDS) – Components for Increased infrastructure and Security Resilience and Capacity UC22015239 56774 56774 15/07/2015 Not set
MCAT 202494 Not set Not set Universal Credit Universal Credit Live Service-IBM Release 10 Build, Test & Implementation UC/2015065 865962 865962 05/08/2015 Not set
MCAT 202520 Not set Not set Universal Credit Use of Medical Services Referral System to support Health & Disability Assessment in the Universal Credit Live Service UC/2015260 211752 211752 28/08/2015 Not set
MCAT 202526 Not set Not set Universal Credit Once & Done Service Centre Enabler IPCC seat re-build on BDC Gemini IP Contact Centre Platform in 4 Benefit Centre sites 187990 187990 03/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202533 Not set Not set Universal Credit Universal Credit Live Service- HPES Release 10.3& 10.4 Performance Test (PT) 226032 226032 09/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202528 Not set Not set Universal Credit UC Release 10.3 & 10.4 Performance Test 272424 272424 03/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202527 Not set Not set Universal Credit Universal Credit Live Service-Accenture Infrastructure 5.1 Release 10.3 & 10.4 Performance Test Plan Preparation and Execution UC/201526 238749 238749 03/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202545 Not set Not set Universal Credit Application Maintenance uplift for Universal Credit - Release 10.2 226751 226751 16/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202546 Not set Not set Universal Credit Work Service Platform (WSP) Accessibility Improvement 59004 59004 16/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202561 Not set Not set Universal Credit Application Maintenance Service for Universal Credit 2040622 2040622 23/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202509 Not set Not set Universal Credit Customer Account Management Lite (CAMLite) Release 15.4 Development and Test 1369017 1369017 11/08/2015 Not set
MCAT 202508 Not set Not set Universal Credit CAM Lite Universal Credit Releases15.3 and 15.3.1 Application Development and Test 240736 240736 11/08/2015 Not set
MCAT 202502 Not set Not set Universal Credit Social Fund Computer System (SFCS) – Development and Test – (UC/2015204) 1235069 1235069 24/08/2015 Not set
MCAT 202547 Not set Not set Universal Credit Provider Referrals and Payment system (PRaP) – Release 3 Development and Test 54454 54454 16/09/2015 Not set
MCAT 202565 Not set Not set Universal Credit Application Maintenance Service for Universal Credit 794645 794645 23/09/2015 Not set