UK Home Office doubles down on Oracle with £54M cloud contract

The UK's Home Office has signed a new deal with Oracle for around £54 million ($72 million) in cloud infrastructure and platform services as it gears up as the centerpiece of a government shared services strategy based on Big Red.

In the form of a license subscription notification, the Whitehall department responsible for policing, immigration, and passports struck the contract from a pre-agreed framework deal for back-office software, which is worth a maximum of £5 billion ($6.7 billion) to all vendors signed up.

Over five years, the call-off contract for Oracle is worth £53.55 million ($72 million) for cloud services. It is set to start next month and will end in 2030.

As part of the deal, Oracle will provide a portal updating the service availability for cloud services and other information, according to the published contract. Other details of the contract are heavily redacted. The Home ...