Transparency data
DWP's exceptions to spending controls: consultancy: July to September 2015
Updated 17 December 2015
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| Department | Organisation Name | Project name | Basis for expenditure approval | Total Value requested (£) | Total Value Approved (£) | Date of approval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 by October 2015 and a public Beta by the end of November 2015. | 260000 | 260000 | 14/07/2015 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Not set | Universal Credit | Universal Credit (UC) Live Service – HPES Release 10 Notification Generation Systems (NGS) | 264249 | 264249 | 08/07/2015 |
| 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 | 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 | Not set | Universal Credit | Universal Credit Live Service-IBM Release 10 Build, Test & Implementation UC/2015065 | 865962 | 865962 | 05/08/2015 |
| 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 | 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 | Not set | Universal Credit | Universal Credit Live Service- HPES Release 10.3& 10.4 Performance Test (PT) | 226032 | 226032 | 09/09/2015 |
| Not set | Not set | Universal Credit | UC Release 10.3 & 10.4 Performance Test | 272424 | 272424 | 03/09/2015 |
| 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 | Not set | Universal Credit | Application Maintenance uplift for Universal Credit - Release 10.2 | 226751 | 226751 | 16/09/2015 |
| Not set | Not set | Universal Credit | Work Service Platform (WSP) Accessibility Improvement | 59004 | 59004 | 16/09/2015 |
| Not set | Not set | Universal Credit | Application Maintenance Service for Universal Credit | 2040622 | 2040622 | 23/09/2015 |
| Not set | Not set | Universal Credit | Customer Account Management Lite (CAMLite) Release 15.4 Development and Test | 1369017 | 1369017 | 11/08/2015 |
| 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 | Not set | Universal Credit | Social Fund Computer System (SFCS) – Development and Test – (UC/2015204) | 1235069 | 1235069 | 24/08/2015 |
| Not set | Not set | Universal Credit | Provider Referrals and Payment system (PRaP) – Release 3 Development and Test | 54454 | 54454 | 16/09/2015 |
| Not set | Not set | Universal Credit | Application Maintenance Service for Universal Credit | 794645 | 794645 | 23/09/2015 |