The HMRC has released a 20 million tender for consulting companies to guide its IT department in a move away from a one sized mega-project IT system run by a single main contractor to one that is open to many smaller and mid-sized IT contractors.
The decision results from enhanced control over projects, as well as increased competition reducing profit-making.
The department would make the changes by 2017, when its existing contract with Capgemini ends.
The HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has gone for a single player mega-contract approach for its IT needs, since the mid-1990s. The initial contract going to EDS, followed by Capgemini's Aspire IT framework which started last year and is contracted to run until 2017.
While a single contract approach has advantages such that the main sub-contractors Fujitsu and Accenture are all organized by Capgemini issues have also been raised by the approach.
A 2014 National Audit Office report shows that giving full control of IT to a single contractor has led the department to lose direction and control of its ICT, among other issues.
The decision results from enhanced control over projects, as well as increased competition reducing profit-making.
The department would make the changes by 2017, when its existing contract with Capgemini ends.
The HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has gone for a single player mega-contract approach for its IT needs, since the mid-1990s. The initial contract going to EDS, followed by Capgemini's Aspire IT framework which started last year and is contracted to run until 2017.
While a single contract approach has advantages such that the main sub-contractors Fujitsu and Accenture are all organized by Capgemini issues have also been raised by the approach.
A 2014 National Audit Office report shows that giving full control of IT to a single contractor has led the department to lose direction and control of its ICT, among other issues.