Memset, an infrastructure cloud provider, has been signed by Fujitsu to support HMRC as it moves to deliver digital services.

Earlier this year, Mark Dearnley, HMRC’s chief digital and information officer, told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) the department was adopting a ‘lean, interactive, agile process’ as part of a phased approach to replacing its existing Aspire contract, which is due to end in June 2017 when HMRC plans to bring the technology and systems back in-house.

As part of this, in March Dearnley told PAC that HMRC had completed a ‘novation’ with its Aspire contractor, Capgemini, which was previously responsible for two major subcontractors, Fujitsu and Accenture. This means HMRC now has a direct relationship with the two companies, and has begun to move the Aspire IT systems off dedicated Fujitsu hardware and onto a private cloud.

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