PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

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

Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency) · published 29 May 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDeded6273-1f30-443c-aaa0-aac989909a1f-899630
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-3c7f4244-c00e-4a2d-850e-256e2704a12e
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-168564
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£555,000
award field
Tender value
£555,000
tender field
Procurement method
Direct award
Category
services
CPV
72230000
Custom software development services
Delivery
England, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

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.\r \r 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.\r \r Strategic objectives behind this contract are:\r - Improve operational reliability and platform resilience.\r - Enable multi-developer DevOps workflows across Sandbox, Dev, Pre-Prod, and Production.\r - Standardise Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.\r - Implement structured CI/CD using Azure DevOps.\r - Strengthen DataOps governance and controlled data promotion.\r - Reduce configuration drift and production risk.\r - Increase integration with GIS and other agency data systems.\r - expand support for Data Science, AI and handling unstructured data at scale.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release29 May 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published27 May 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published28 May 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published29 May 2028
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Manuka AI Limited

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 29 May 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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