Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2011/10/07/moj_goes_to_market_for_noms_it/
MoJ shops for ICT provider for Her Majesty's prisons
3-year deal to give services to crim-managers
Posted in Legal, 7th October 2011 08:21 GMT
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is looking for a provider of ICT services for the National Offender Management Service (Noms), as part of a transition towards using its Future ICT Sourcing (Fits) model.
It has published a tender for a three-year deal worth up to £300m to provide services for hardware, software and networks. It is aiming to award the contract next year to provide an interim solution until a transition to Fits by 2015, although there is a provision for two possible extensions of a year each.
The existing ICT infrastructure of Noms covers its headquarters and 131 prisons and includes desktops, networks, telephony and application services.
Fits involves the implementation of a service tower model for delivering infrastructure, applications, services and communications across the whole of the MoJ, replacing a range of programmes. The relevant contracts will be tendered separately.
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