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Published 3 Aug 2026, 16:37 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Environment, Build, Support and Administration (EBSA)

Official notice

Authority: Home Office (Central government)

Award under framework
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 description

EBSA 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 published

Procedure 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
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06da5a Find a Tender
Related procedures1

Notice history

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 3 Aug 2026
  1. Contract award notice published
    3 Aug 2026, 16:37 BST
    UK6
  2. Contract signature expected
    2 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £110,652,3981 award exc. VAT
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Kainos Software Limited2 Sept 2026 – 1 Sept 2030 · up to 1 Sept 2031Extensions: Optional right to extend for additional year.£110,652,3983 Aug 2026Awarded

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Home Office

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PWGC-6513-PQLZ 2 Marsham Street, London, London, SW1P 4DFContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • KAINOS SOFTWARE LIMITEDAwarded supplierGB-COH: NI019370GB-PPON: PWJC-3739-RTLN Kainos House, 4-6 Upper Crescent, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NTContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender