AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline

The UK's tax collector is budgeting to spend more than £2 billion on new tech deals in the next couple of years, including a contract set for AWS and another for Capgemini to be awarded without competition.

According to a spreadsheet of the procurement pipeline for this year and next, His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is starting with a data warehouse transformation program with a contract value estimated at £410 million.

The document says: "HMRC intends to procure a single contract to deliver the transformation of its Legacy Data Warehouses (LDWs), combining existing run and change services with the migration and decommissioning of LDW platforms." The planned procurement replaces no existing contract.

The legacy technology in question is most likely to be SAP ECC Business Warehouse, according to an earlier framework order. SAP is at the center of an ERP overhaul worth £246 million to the German ...