Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value was of the contract that was awarded to VMWare Pivotal Labs for work on the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app.
In March 2020, Go Pivotal (UK) Ltd, which was acquired by VM Ware in December 2019, was awarded contracts of £500,000 for app development and support, and £1.3 million for development and deployment of a minimum viable product (MVP) and app to market. In May 2020 the company was awarded a contract of £3 million for development and deployment of a MVP and limited period of support.