Transport for London (TFL) will go to tender later this month for a supplier to provide service integration and management (SIAM) services to support its transformational information management programme. The contract worth approximately £75m over five years is expected to be awarded by 2016. TFL plan for three service towers, end user computing, networks, applications development and applications management. A short list is planned to be announced in April 2015.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have also announced their plans to move to a SIAM model in plans to ramp up their IT following in the foot steps of Ministry of Justice and the Highways Agency who have outsourced to Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems respectively.

TfL award Cubic £660m outsourcing deal