The Metropolitan Police Service has selected the Cubit
consortium, led by Capgemini, as its preferred bidder for a £350m
seven-year IT services contract.
The Cubit consortium also includes Unisys and BT.
The metAgility consortium, led by EDS, which lost out at the
last hurdle in the bidding, has been retained as a “reserve
bidder”.
Cubit and the police service will now thrash out the final
details of the contract before it is presented to the Metropolitan
Police Authority in November for final approval.
Once the deal is approved, Cubit is expected to start providing
IT services to the Met from next summer. Until then, the Met's
current suppliers will continue to provide a service to the
organisation.
The Met's director of information Ailsa Beaton, said, “Through
this contract we aim to increase the quality of ICT service for all
MPS staff, set customer-focused service levels, and provide greater
visibility of the quality of service.”
Beaton also said that the Met wanted to achieve strategic
benefits through streamlined contract management, improved
management reporting of service and cost data, and service costs
benchmarked against market rates to ensure they remained
competitive over the life of the contract.