Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2022 to Question 148116 Treasury: Procurement, with reference to the contract HMT OSCAR II Procurement, published by his Department on 24 April 2019, which of the payment milestones listed in Annex 7 of the contract’s schedule of services have been reached as of 22 April 2022; and when any outstanding payment milestones listed in Annex 7 are expected to be reached.

Project milestones reached as of 22 April 2022:

• Discovery & Strategy Complete
• Platform & Hosting Available
• Core Solution Available
• Financial Consolidation Available
• Analytical Reporting Available
• Additional Reporting Available
• Operational Running (including Hosting and Helpdesk) complete per quarter meeting downtime and other SLAs. This is ongoing and reached on a quarterly basis.

Project milestone partially reached as of 22 April 2022:

• Core Reporting Available

o This milestone has been aligned to process go-lives and there are three remaining:

o Budgeting & Estimates (expected September 2022)

o Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (expected September 2022)

o Country Regional Analysis (expected December 2022)

Project milestones not reached as of 22 April 2022:

• API Based Data Collection Available (expected December 2022)
• Project Completion (Expected December 2022)
• Contract Exit (due November 2023)