V2 Digital Delivery Partner

HM Revenue & CustomscontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-0502e0Procurement Act 2023SME suitableVCSE suitablepending
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Estimated value

Awarded value

£14.0m

Awarded 12 Aug 2025

Suppliers

1

1 SME

Lots

1

1 awarded

Published

29 Aug 2025

Description

HMRC will hold a briefing event for all interested parties on 28 April. Attendance requires signing of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in advance. To keep pace with evolving customer, societal and economic expectations, manage the growing tax gap, and modernise its workforce and technology to be future fit and continuously improve, HMRC must execute an ambitious transformation agenda. Delivery of our five-year transformation outcomes will be a complex and significant undertaking. This will necessitate a fundamental step change in how we run and change our services in order to transform across the entire organisation and increase our flexibility for the future. By 2029/30, our vision is to operate as a digital first tax and customs administration which enables individuals and businesses to get their tax right and have greater certainty over their tax obligations. To achieve this, we need to deliver a set of outcomes through our transformation portfolio that will modernise our technology estate and ensure our IT systems remain resilient and secure, enable 80%+ of all customer interaction to be digital, bring in £6.5bn additional tax revenue. This significant undertaking will require all parts of our organisation to be more innovative, bold and efficient in how we lead, deliver and embed change. We are looking for a strategic and delivery partner who will support, coach and help us to deliver as we: 1. Test, Critique and Embed a Service Ownership Model: Support and work with HMRC colleagues to understand the conditions for success, to develop and land our operating model and ways of working and to coach the organisation on the journey to develop user centric, adaptive and iterative services - using HMRC's current transformation challenges to implement a different approach. 2. Land iterative change effectively and efficiently: Increasing the capacity for, and quality of, change by implementing iterative improvements. 3. Increase our capability working side-by-side with HMRC colleagues to deliver agreed pieces of our backlog. 4. Implement new, AI-driven, and digital iterative ways of working: Accelerate end-to-end changes across various project sizes and complexities. 5. Upskill and educate: Ensure that leadership and teams are equipped to drive and support the transformation agenda, providing learning and skills to embrace digital and new ways of working and setting the tone for the required cultural change. 6. Provide strategic leadership support for transformation: Partner HMRC's Executive Committee and senior leadership community to institute new ways of working, and foster a culture that enables agile, innovative approaches to designing and running services to thrive. Advise and help ExCom to deliver on opportunities to address structural organisational design opportunities that would accelerate the pace of change. Provide expert strategic advice on an ad hoc basis to both the Exchequer Secretary and the Permanent Secretaries on Digital Transformation, AI and how to deliver user driven change at pace. And ultimately ensure that we deliver on our ambitious plans.

Scope

Reference
SR2508323595
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
03 Aug 2025 to 03 Aug 2027
Possible extension to 03 Aug 2028

12 month optional extension

CPV classifications
79400000
Contract locations
UK, United Kingdom
Particular suitability
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Technical Capability - Setting Directionquality10.00%
Technical Capability - Delivering Iterative Changesquality25.00%
Technical Capability - Removing Blockersquality10.00%
Technical capability - Developing Capabilities across an organisationquality20.00%
Technical capability - Effective Knowledge Transferquality10.00%
Technical capability - Service Ownership capabilityquality25.00%

Participation

Conditions suppliers must meet to bid.

Participation in this tender will be restricted to the providers who best demonstrate their technical capability to deliver the requirement. It is mandatory for any interested suppliers to register on the new CENTRAL DIGITAL PLATFORM which is part of the enhanced Find a Tender Service. HMRC welcomes interest from all suitable suppliers, particularly SMEs and VCSEs.

Submission & procedure

Procedure
Competitive flexible procedure

Award details

Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.

Awarded value

£14.0m

Award date

12 Aug 2025

Contract start

09 Sept 2025

Contract end

09 Sept 2027

Awarded to
PD
SME