The department responsible for prosecuting the most serious economic crime and corruption cases across England, Wales and Northern Ireland requires a software partner with relevant expertise and UK hosting capability
The Serious Fraud Office is offering a contract of almost £10m for a long-term software partner to provide a core operational platform.
The SFO, which employs 450 civil servants and operates as a non-ministerial department, has opened bids for a 10-year contract covering the provision of a case-management system (CMS) that “must be cloud-based, off the shelf, and of sufficient flexibility to be configurable to meet our specialist needs as an agency that both investigates and prosecutes complex economic and financial crime”.
The department’s work covers the most serious complex fraud and corruption cases and the contract notice outlines that, because of the sensitive nature of this work, suppliers must have relevant sector expertise and must be able to provide their technology from UK hosting facilities.
“In order to ensure adequate…