Homes England - Data Platform Improvement project (G-Cloud14 Lot3)
Buyer: Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency)
Description
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.
Awarded to
CPV codes
- 72230000 — Custom software development services
- 72224100 — System implementation planning services
- 72212781 — System management software development services
- 72212980 — Programming languages and tools development services
- CPV category
- Custom software development services (72230000)
- Procurement method
- Direct award
- Published
- 29 May 2026 12:13
- VCSE suitable
- No
- OCID
- ocds-b5fd17-3c7f4244-c00e-4a2d-850e-256e2704a12e
- Notice ID
- HCA001-DN817646-09968901
- In our database since
- 17 Aug 2026