Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running

The UK's largest police force has awarded French outsourcer Atos a six-year contract worth up to £350 million to manage and secure applications. Atos will provide service management, application management, and application security for the Metropolitan Police Service in London. The deal is intended to support the Met's ongoing modernization and simplification of its applications. Met Police digital product delivery director Jamie Hewitt said: "Our collaboration with Atos will provide a stable digital foundation for our officers and staff, supporting the ongoing modernization and simplification of our application landscape and driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the technology that underpins frontline policing." The Met can extend the six-year contract by two years and expand its scope to include managed cloud and digital workplace services. The award follows another large-scale tech deal for the Met Police earlier this year. …