Post Office: ICT

(asked on 21st October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what procurement process his Department intends to use for selecting a replacement service for the Horizon system.


Answered by
Blair McDougall Portrait
Blair McDougall
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 27th October 2025

Post Office Limited (as the contracting entity) is using the competitive flexible process (pursuant to the Procurement Act 2023) in order to select suppliers to take over the current Horizon system and transform it into a replacement solution. The Tender for Lots 1 and 2 is live here: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/050009-2025?origin=Dashboard.

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