National Highways, an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Transport, has signed two long-term deals with Oracle estimated at almost £40m.
Formerly known as Highways England until 2021, National Highways plans, designs, builds, operates and maintains England’s motorways and major A roads (also known as the strategic road network SRN). National Highways aim is to make road users’ journeys safer, smoother and more reliable, as well as providing advice to the Government on priorities for the next five years and beyond.
These two contracts came into effect last month and could run until 2032. The largest contract of the two is valued at almost £28.2m, according to the contract notice, and covers the provision of the “proprietary ERP software” of Oracle. According to and reported by Public Technology, National Highways has also signed on for an eight-year term to access Oracle’s “work and asset cloud services module [which] connects to Oracle’s [ERP] software.” This deal is said to be estimated at around £10.7m.
This news follows Oracle’s announcement back in October where its Synergy Programme aims to provide shared services for four major UK Government departments, including the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office. These four departments selected Oracle Cloud to run their shared services platform to reduce costs, standardize finance, supply chain and HR data, and transform corporate services.
“We are building a common operating model and establishing business processes that will be used collectively across four Departments that employ nearly half of all civil servants in the UK,” said Chris Murtagh, chief technology officer and ERP programme director, Synergy Programme. “Oracle Cloud will create a single platform that will expand insights, increase efficiency, and allow us to better meet the needs of citizens.”
These announcements demonstrate Oracle’s commitment to the digital development of the public sector and impact of its ERP software.
