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The government digital service has selected Deloitte as its primary business partner to support the delivery of the new government-wide login system for citizen services.
First unveiled in September 2020, Project One Login’s goal is to create a single unified system to replace an existing patchwork of nearly 200 separate accounts and 44 different login methods currently in use across all departments. The work program also includes the development of a GOV.UK app to allow citizens to access a full range of hundreds of services provided by dozens of government agencies.
A “full” version of the new login system should enter public testing any day now.
As the system is iterated – and implemented across government – over the coming months, the GDS will be supported by Deloitte.
Recently released public procurement information reveals that the consulting giant has been awarded a two-year contract which came into effect on March 24. Once VAT is included, the deal will be worth nearly £11million to the London-based company.
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According to a contract notice published in November, GDS was “seeking a delivery partner to work with the One Login program…to provide full or partial multi-disciplinary digital delivery teams to work on outcomes that support broader program delivery” .
Along with this delivery support, Deloitte will also be asked to help the digital agency “build sustainable internal capacity to further scale and manage services” once the two-year deal is complete.
Sales documents reveal that the professional services firm will provide staff in 18 specific roles: content and service designers; technical managers; product, delivery and site reliability managers; front-end and back-end developers; data, technical and security architects; quality assurance specialists; cloud infrastructure engineers; business and performance analysts; and technical writers.
The contract is the largest of four contracts awarded by GDS to vendors to support the One Login program. The second biggest – worth £4.8million plus VAT, and also won by Deloitte – covered the development of an identity verification app to accompany the single sign-on system.
The other two contracts related respectively to “technical results” and “product results”. Each of these deals is worth around £2m; both were won by Leeds-based consultancy Hippo Digital.