Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
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The UK Home Office has awarded contract extensions worth £28 million to two incumbent tech suppliers of the much-delayed Atlas immigration and asylum system after a legal challenge derailed an earlier procurement process.
The Whitehall department in charge of policing, borders, and immigration awarded PA Consulting a five-month contract extension worth £13.5 million and Mastek a four-month extension worth £15 million. Both contracts were awarded without competition.
The Register understands the Home Office began an open procurement for new contracts in the summer of 2025. However, Mastek launched a legal challenge in October after it was eliminated following the second stage of bidding for a £138 million Atlas contract.
Mastek alleged there had been "manifest errors" in the scoring and that competing bidders had access to information that had not been made available to...
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