COMPASS contract - extension

The CPS announces the extension of its outsourced ICT Services contract with CGI until March 2019. This additional two-years gives the department the opportunity to deliver outcomes promised in its Digital Strategy and complete the disaggregation and re-contracting of services to replace the existing outsourced contract whilst maintaining services. During the disaggregation period, and in accordance with central policy, the department expects to pursue new contracts with suppliers under existing centrally negotiated frameworks and as a result there is unlikely to be a call for services via open competition. The department plans to launch tender exercises for: Applications and Hosting; End User Device maintenance; and Service Desk provision in the next 12-months. There will also be calls for lower value IT goods & services in the same period.