NE tech consultancy Opencast lands £10M Department for Education contracts

Opencast, a North East England technology consultancy, has expanded its partnership with the Department for Education (DfE) by securing two new contracts with a total value exceeding £10 million.

Under these new agreements, Opencast consultants will collaborate with the DfE’s data directorate until 2025, focusing on enhancing data and solutions architecture.

Opencast’s role in these contracts will involve assisting the DfE in collecting more comprehensive real-time data, reducing the time required for data validation and modernising its architectural framework.

The first contract, valued at £8.5 million, entails supplying architects to support the DfE’s Solutions Architecture practice. Additionally, Opencast has secured a one-year agreement worth £2.1 million to provide architecture and data modelling services for the DfE’s Learner Data Services program.

Opencast Director of Client Experience, Sam Manson, said: “We are delighted to be expanding our existing relationship with DfE, enhancing capabilities in both the data and architecture spaces. These new contracts add to the wide range of our work across government, including at HM Revenue and Customs, Department for Work and Pensions and the Government Digital Service. We look forward to helping all of our UK government partners deliver user-centred and sustainable digital services that make a real difference to society.”

Opencast specialises in designing, building and running user-centred digital and technology solutions. Its work for the UK government develops services that support critical national infrastructure and help millions of citizens through tax, benefit and support services.

These contracts with the DfE follow Opencast having been appointed to the government’s £2 billion+ Digital and Legacy Application Services (DALAS) framework last month.