Official UK procurement notice
Environment, Build, Support and Administration (EBSA)
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Awarded value£110,652,398published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 3 Aug 2026
Awarded to Kainos Software Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEBSA provides a highly secure and scalable build, test, deployment and run capability for CNI and non-CNI applications for Migration and Borders within the Home Office.
EBSA key information
- Hosts around 250 programme/product teams, 3,000 users, and major programmes, including Crossing the Border, Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETAs) and Immigration Case Management.
- Multiple tenancy in a secure manner that adheres to the security requirements for each programme of work
- Provides service management for the hosted tenants.
- The existing service is provided by Capgemini.
- The successful bidder will be required to provide a product- centric managed service for EBSA, ensuring optimal performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
- Responsibilities will include infrastructure platform support, management, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, compliance, updates, managing & delivering remediation of technical debt etc.
- The successful bidder will maintain near 24/7 platform availability, implement best practices as per the policy direction of Home Office Digital and help with cloud strategy, scalability, and resource optimisation for seamless operations.
- Working with the Home Office to deliver efficiency improvement and support the 2030 Digital Strategy
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award under framework
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Call-off under a framework
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 Aug 2026, 16:37 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Aug 2026, 16:37 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-073368- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06da5aFind a Tender
Related procedures1
- Call-off under framework Technology Services 4
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 3 Aug 2026- Contract award notice published3 Aug 2026, 16:37 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected2 Sept 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £110,652,3981 award exc. VAT
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kainos Software Limited2 Sept 2026 – 1 Sept 2030 · up to 1 Sept 2031Extensions: Optional right to extend for additional year. | £110,652,398 | 3 Aug 2026 | Awarded |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- KAINOS SOFTWARE LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender