Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what services are being provided through each contract procured by his Department for its digital transformation programme.
The Ministry of Defence is delivering Digital Transformation through five key themes as set out in the Digital Strategy for Defence, published in April 2021. The five themes are: People, Process, Data, Technology, and Cyber. Transformation activity is increasingly intrinsic to the entire Digital spend of the department to maximise impact and pace and it would be difficult to itemise specific Transformation contributions from the whole portfolio. Within the core Transformation Team and the key themes, we have placed contracts for the following services:
Area | Description of Services | Principal Suppliers | Total 2022-23 Forecast (£million)* |
Core Central Team | Support to our overall cohesion and governance of the Digital Transformation programme. | - i3Works. | 0.9 |
People | Services to provide training and wider skills development. | - PA Consulting; - Kornferry; - Turner & Townsend. | 13.3 |
Process | To establish a transparent pan-Defence digital portfolio, establish common architectural standards and design services, support enterprise-wide IT operations, establish Digital Category management, and implement and assure digital controls. | - La Fosse; - Turner & Townsend; - VIMA; - KPMG; - Capita; - BMT Defence and Security UK; - Tisski; - Net Consulting. | 16.1 |
Data & Technology | To support the development of our strategic use of Data, core technology areas including Digital Foundry, a multi-class hyperscale cloud, and a next generation resilient network with associated technical support. | - Accenture; - Amazon Web Services (SoftwareOne); - KPMG; - Microsoft; - Microsoft (Boxxe); - Inform Ltd; - Atos; - PA Consulting; - Cognizant UK; - Capgemini; - Actica Consulting; - Digi2al; - Improbable; - Informatica; - Global Resourcing; - Palantir. | 132.4 |
Cyber | Support to improve our Cyber defence, cohesion, and integrated planning. | - Qinetiq; - Logiq Consulting; - Boxxe; - CGI IT UK; - CDW; - Leonardo UK; - Vysiion; - Garrison Technology; - Rohde & Schwarz UK; - Kaze Digital & Data. | 127.5 |
*All figures provided are inclusive of non-recoverable VAT.
The table above lists the principal suppliers for each of our core strategic themes. There are other, lower value contracts with suppliers that are included in the total value but have not been listed above. Excluding Cyber, there are 48 contracts associated with supporting Transformation. Within the entirety of the Cyber portfolio, there are 69 contracts which cover Defensive Cyber and Operations and Cyber Resilience.