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Homes England - Data Platform Improvement project (G-Cloud14 Lot3)

Homes England

Awarded
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Key details

Contracting authority
Homes England
housing association
Region
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract value
£555,000ex VAT
Submissions closed
27 May 2026
Published
11 June 2026

Procurement

Contract period
29 May 2026 - 29 May 2028
2 years
Procedure type
Call-off from a framework agreement
CPV classifications
  • 72212781 System management software development services
  • 72240000 Systems analysis and programming services

What happened

Homes England awarded this contract to Manuka AI worth £555,000 on 28 May 2026. The contract runs until 29 May 2028.

Description

The Agency's Data Platform built on Azure Databricks in 2019-20, requires improvements to support its expanded use for production grade data management, decision support and analytics. The services are outcome-based and project-driven, intended to improve the operational reliability, DevOps/DataOps maturity, and architectural robustness of the Authority's enterprise Azure-based data platform. Strategic objectives behind this contract are: - Improve operational reliability and platform resilience. - Enable multi-developer DevOps workflows across Sandbox, Dev, Pre-Prod, and Production. - Standardise Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform. - Implement structured CI/CD using Azure DevOps. - Strengthen DataOps governance and controlled data promotion. - Reduce configuration drift and production risk. - Increase integration with GIS and other agency data systems. - expand support for Data Science, AI and handling unstructured data at scale.

Option to extend: 2 x 12 Months

Awarded supplier

Supplier
Award value
£555,000
Award date
28 May 2026

Contact

Address
The Lumen, 2nd Floor, St James Boulevard, Newcastle Helix, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5BZ
Contact name
Barry Stoker

Identifiers

Buyer reference
DN817646
Notice ID
3bb328c6-a840-430c-be79-9298e9ce195b-901629
OCID
ocds-b5fd17-e77914e6-b010-408c-8034-09d6ac7f05d1

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