The UK Government's Home Office has signed a new cloud computing contract with Oracle valued at almost £54 million ($72m).

As first reported by Public Technology, the contract will start in November 2025 and run for five years.

Described in the contract award notice as an Oracle SaaS, IaaS, & PaaS (Software, Infrastructure, and Platform as a service) license subscription uplift, the first year is expected to see the Home Office spend £10.9 million ($14.51m).

A similar amount is expected to be spent over the following four years, for a total of £53.4m without VAT.

In addition to the core licensing services, Oracle will provide a "notifications portal… [that] will provide metrics on the service availability level for cloud Services... The [Home Office] will also be able to use the Portal to access other information about the services.”

Large portions of the contract document are redacted.

The Home Office, which is responsible for public safety and policing, border security, immigration, passports, and civil registration in the UK, is part of the government's shared-services "Synergy" program, which selected Oracle as its core software platform provider. Also part of the program is the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the Department for Work and Pensions, and the Ministry of Justice.

The Synergy contract was awarded in October 2024 and is valued at $1bn over 10 years. The program will also use Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence and OCI for analytics capabilities. All of these shared services will run in the Oracle Cloud for the UK Government & Defence.

At the time, Chris Murtagh, CTO and ERP program director, Synergy, said: “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. Oracle Cloud will create a single platform that will expand insights, increase efficiency, and allow us to better meet the needs of citizens.”

The Home Office previously migrated its on-premises ERP system to Oracle in 2018, signing a contract extension in 2022 that covered it until 2026.

Outside of Oracle, the Home Office is a known user of Amazon Web Services (AWS). In 2020, it signed a four-year contract extension with AWS to host its core services for £100m ($130m). This was renewed in December 2023 in a £450 million ($568.64m) contract for three years.