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Cognizant bags £360 million UK government deal to modernise HMRC systems

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Cognizant has been awarded a contract worth up to £360 million over 5 years by the UK's HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to provide a range of services including low-code build, configuration, DevOps, and live service management to help modernize its application landscape.

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"Proud to share that Cognizant has been awarded a significant contract by HM Revenue & Customs to provide specialist low-code build, configuration, DevOps and live service management services . Worth up to £360m over the full 5-year term, the contract supports the design, development, testing, deployment, operation and continuous improvement of HMRC's low-code products and services which help drive efforts to modernise its application landscape. Delighted to build on our long history of working with HMRC and support its vision of providing more efficient services to citizens." Gupta wrote on LinkedIn.

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  • HM Revenue & CustomsClientgov.uk

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95%
Detected
Aug 18, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
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    "title": "Cognizant bags £360 million UK government deal to modernise HMRC systems - livemint.com",
    "excerpt": "“Proud to share that Cognizant has been awarded a significant contract by HM Revenue & Customs to provide specialist low-code build, configuration, DevOps and live service management services . Worth up to £360m over the full 5-year term, the contract supports the design, development, testing, deployment, operation and continuous improvement of HMRC’s low-code products and services which help drive efforts to modernise its application landscape. Delighted to build on our long history of working with HMRC and support its vision of providing more efficient services to citizens.” Gupta wrote on LinkedIn.",
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