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Tender: Maintenance and Development of legislation.gov.uk Platform – The National Archives

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Closed25 Sep 2026
Est. valueEstimate£90K to £640K
Current contractMacgregor Editorial Ltd£36K · ended Jan 2026
LocationNorth East
SourceFind a Tender
CategoryIT & Software
Submissions closedClosed Fri, 25 Sept 2026

The National Archives is seeking a supplier for the maintenance and development of its legislation.gov.uk Platform, covering the public legislation website, statistics service, publishing, editorial and research tools, and the legislation linked data RDF store. The contract is intended for an initial 2-year period with options to extend for up to three further 12-month periods (2+1+1+1), with an estimated maximum value over five years of circa £10,200,000 (inc. VAT). The Supplier will provide cloud hosting management and platform services for an AWS IaaS-hosted environment deployed across Live, QA, UAT and DR environments, using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, EC2 Image Builder) and application deployment tools (Jenkins, CodeDeploy), and operating services that rely on EC2 and AWS components including S3, CloudFront, ELB, VPC, Athena, Shield, GuardDuty and others. The Supplier must manage, secure, monitor and continually optimise the infrastructure to meet performance, resilience, security and cost requirements. Annexes 1–7 describing detailed platform components are available on request from [email protected].

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