Capgemini wins £107M HMRC extension – no competition needed

UK tax collector His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has awarded Capgemini a £107 million support and services deal, without competition, under a relationship that started more than twenty years ago.

The French outsourcer is being rehired to provide business application support and maintenance services for a set of "business-critical HMRC applications."

The current deal was agreed in 2022, and is designed to "provide decommissioning and applications modernisation services for applications in scope," an official notice said this week.

The modification will continue to support that process "to meet initial contract objective ensuring that key business applications and services are modernized and ready for future market engagement," the notice said.

The modified contract is scheduled to end in 2027, bringing the total value under the 2022 deal to £321.8 million, all without outside competition. However, the total amount awarded to Capgemini since the Aspire project was first created ...