Home Office selects Accenture and Certus in £20m ERP deal

Accenture and Certus win series of contracts with Home Office

The Home Office has selected professional services company Accenture and Oracle-partner Certus Solutions in a series of deals to deliver a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for the Home Office.

The series of two-year contracts, which are worth around £20m in value, were awarded after a tendering process under the government's G-Cloud framework.

The new system, dubbed Metis, is intended to transform the way the Home Office delivers back-office services across finance, procurement, HR, customer service and payroll.

It will be configured on the Oracle Cloud platform, with Acccenture responsible for all programme management, business change, technical integration and client reporting requirements.

Certus Solutions will work with Accenture to configure the platform, and to transfer existing Home Office applications to a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.

Accenture claimed that it is one of the largest Oracle Cloud implementations by a UK government department to-date.

"The Home Office is committed to cross-government alignment of back-office services," said Richard Hornby, director of finance and estates at the Home Office.

He continued: "This is an exciting project that will enable the Home Office to embrace opportunities for best practice ways of working in line with other world class organisations.

"We look forward to working with our implementation partners to achieve improvements which will simplify processes and free our people up to deliver the important work of the department: keeping citizens and the country secure," he said.

The Home Office published a tender notice back in April, in what it said was a G-Cloud procurement for technical integration for an Oracle-based ERP system.

The tender involved a number of 'lots', including one for a system integrator, one for a technical supplier responsible for functional configuraiton and an integration lot.

Accenture and Certus Solutions have been awarded various lots to the value of £20m in the series of tenders.