HM Treasury has launched a commercial notice seeking suppliers to support the design and early implementation of a cross-government data platform, part of its wider ambition to improve collaboration, transparency, and performance monitoring across Whitehall.
The initiative forms a central part of the Treasury’s Shared Services for Government (SSfG) programme, which is standardising back-office systems across five departmental clusters.
The Treasury says the platform will enable near real-time extraction, harmonisation, and analysis of finance, outcome, and performance data, providing ministers and senior officials with a clearer understanding of departmental activity and decision-making. Suppliers responding to the notice are expected to provide integrator capabilities capable of extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data from both legacy and new IT systems, as well as centrally held MS Office datasets.
Security, governance, and control are emphasised as critical requirements, reflecting the sensitive nature of government financial and performance data. The platform must also be flexible and scalable, allowing for the ingestion of new data sets over time and the potential inclusion of local government entities and arm’s-length bodies. While artificial intelligence is not a current requirement, the Treasury notes that an “AI Data Ready” architecture would allow future expansion and support the efficient scaling of the system.
The notice highlights the Treasury’s ambition to “rewire the state”, using data to improve transparency between departments and the centre of government, harmonise key datasets, and support better-informed policy and operational decisions. This effort builds on ongoing work under SSfG, which has already unified back-office infrastructure across departmental clusters, providing a foundation for integrated analytics and reporting.
Industry observers say the project represents a significant opportunity for technology suppliers, particularly those with experience in enterprise data integration, analytics, and secure government systems. By establishing a centrally managed platform capable of drawing on multiple departmental systems, the Treasury hopes to reduce duplication, improve efficiency, and enable more responsive policy-making.