Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the value for money of the NHS Federated Data Platform and Associated Services contact awarded to Palantir.

The Federated Data Platform and Associated Services (FDP-AS) procurement is currently live. It is anticipated that a supplier will be selected in the coming weeks and a contract will be awarded in late September. This procurement process has not concluded, and no contract has been awarded as yet.

NHS England has put in place a new 12-month transition contract with Palantir to support the safe transition and exit from the incumbent supplier to the new FDP-AS supplier when it is awarded and established. Further detail on this contract can be found on Contracts Finder.

This contract notice references the future FDP-AS contract for context, however it should be noted that it is a separate contract and procurement process.