ASPIRE — The Verdict So Far

After some deliberation and much review the National Audit Office (NAO) published its review of HMRC's re-competition of its outsourced IT services in July; the scope of the project brought it under the automatic attention of the National Audit Office as the project is expected to cost between £3 billion and £4 billion over a ten-year term; there is also an option to extend the contract for up to eight more years.

The result of the re-competition was the outsource contract project known as ASPIRE (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the...