MOJ intends to procure the services of an ICT provider including any proposed sub-contractors and/or partners to host, deliver, manage and support ICT services to NOMS and its associated bodies from July 2012.

The contract will replace the current services pending transition of MoJ ICT Services to the Future ICT Sourcing (FITS) target operating model (TOM). This is a much wider programme that will change the way ICT services are delivered from the current end-to-end contracts by line of business to an MoJ wide "Service Tower" model with separate contracts for service integration, end-user computing, networks, hosting, and application maintenance and development. FITS contracts will be advertised separately. Procurement activity is likely to commence late in 2011 leading to award of contracts in 2013 and transition by 2015.

The contract being advertised in this notice is for the provision of the whole range of end-to-end services for a period of up to three years with options to extend by 2 further periods of 12 months. It will provide an interim solution that will ensure business continuity between the end of the current service contract in 2012 and the transition to FITS by 2015.