"The agreement, priced at £472.8 million including VAT, is scheduled to run for a minimum of seven years from April 2026 with an option to extend it to ten years."
"The 'Procurement for the provision of Hyperscaler Services to enable Data Centre Exit' contract is intended to let the tax collector end its use of three datacenters managed by Fujitsu by June 2028."
"HMRC said it 'anticipated that the appointment will be limited to a single Hyperscaler' able to migrate services and infrastructure from the Fujitsu-run bit barns to UK-based cloud hosting."
HMRC has awarded a £472.8 million contract to Amazon Web Services to migrate services from three Fujitsu-run datacenters. The contract will last a minimum of seven years, starting in April 2026, with an option to extend to ten years. The project aims to end the use of Fujitsu datacenters by June 2028. The decision was based on quality, price, and social value, with a focus on modern hyperscaler cloud technologies. AWS was the only bidder assessed for the contract.
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