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The three-year contract has a potential value of £150 million with an initial contract award of £39m and is with the UK’s Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Defence Digital organisation, which is responsible for ensuring the UK military has access to effective digital products and services. The contract also includes options for extensions for up to two further years.

Approximately 100 experts from the QinetiQ-led Team Advance* will join the MoD-led Delivery Team and will be providing expertise in areas including programme and project management, cost engineering, approvals, network, security and safety engineering.

While this contract aims to deliver a new communications solution for use on the front line, it follows QinetiQ’s longstanding collaboration through its predecessor contract, BATCIS Private Sector Support (BPSS), where QinetiQ – alongside partners BMT, Roke and Eviden (then ATOS) – provided a range of services including programme management, engineering, trials and training.

James Willis, Chief Executive UK Intelligence, QinetiQ, said: In this digital era, reliable and robust communications are the bedrock of an operationally effective fighting force. As a trusted partner to the UK military we are delighted to continue to support development and delivery of this vitally important programme that enables our Armed Forces to defend our nation, safely and securely.

Brigadier Jez Sharpe, Defence Digital, said: We are delighted to be able award this contract to Team Advance who, we are confident, will deliver the expertise we need to take land tactical communications to the next stage. We look forward to an enduring partnership as we bring capability to the hands of our front line troops.

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*About Team Advance
Team Advance is a QinetiQ-led delivery team created to deliver the TRP project. The team members are Accenture, BMT, Eviden and Roke.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.

About BMT
BMT is a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems Our core business comprises distinctive and sustainable capabilities, which we leverage to address the needs of our customers and markets and are the primary focus of future capability development. We exist to navigate the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time. We create environments where people with outstanding technical knowledge deliver meaningful, practical solutions. We are driven by a commitment to a safer, more efficient, effective and sustainable future.

About Eviden
Eviden designs the scope composed of Atos’ digital, cloud, big data and security business lines. It will be a global leader in data-driven, trusted and sustainable digital transformation. As a next generation digital business with worldwide leading positions in digital, cloud, data, advanced computing and security, it brings deep expertise for all industries in more than 53 countries. By uniting unique high-end technologies across the full digital continuum with 57,000 world-class talents, Eviden expands the possibilities of technologies for enterprises and public authorities, helping them to build their digital future. Eviden is an Atos Group business with an annual revenue of c. €5billion.

About Roke
Roke is a leading UK innovator in science and engineering. For over 60 years we’ve been improving the world through innovation by combining the physical and digital in new ways. Our journey began in defence but as the decades have rolled on, we're also inventing and engineering technically advanced data and communication systems in national security and for Fortune 500 companies.