---
title: "FHAS Transition and Exit"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-07871a"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS"
published: "2026-10-14"
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# FHAS Transition and Exit

Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-07871a

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## Summary

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) required an integrated service to manage the transition and exit of its Future Hosting and Storage (FHAS) services from incumbent providers to newly appointed suppliers. The work covers coordinating, governing, assuring and overseeing transition, implementation, service readiness and exit management. The supplier acts on Defra’s behalf across multiple suppliers, programmes and stakeholders, maintaining continuity of service, operational readiness and governance compliance throughout the transition. This is IT consultancy and support work (CPV 72000000). The buyer is Defra, a central government department. The procurement concerns a single lot and is focused on Defra’s FHAS services; the delivery location is not stated.

The procurement is complete and the contract was awarded to Finyx Consulting Limited. The award was made on 13 October 2026, with an awarded value of £3 million excluding VAT (£3.6 million including VAT). The contract period runs from 26 October 2026 to 25 October 2027, with an optional extension of up to six months, in two three-month periods, allowing a latest end date of 25 April 2028. Defra used a selective procedure to make a competitive award under a framework. The contract covers one lot. The published process information does not state the evaluation criteria or supplier eligibility requirements.

The award shows demand for a lead transition and exit management provider able to take an outcome-based, integrated role across complex IT service changes. A credible competitor for this requirement would need to coordinate multiple incumbent and incoming suppliers, programmes and stakeholders, while overseeing implementation, service readiness and exit activities. The work calls for strong governance and assurance capability, together with the ability to protect continuity of live services and confirm operational readiness throughout the transition. Providers with experience managing cross-supplier transitions in hosting and storage environments would be well placed to demonstrate relevant delivery capability to Defra. The scale and breadth of coordination suggest capacity to manage concurrent workstreams and stakeholder dependencies, rather than providing a narrow standalone IT service.

## Notice

Defra requires a managed outcome-based service to coordinate, govern, assure and oversee the successful transition of Future Hosting and Storage (FHAS) services from incumbent suppliers to newly appointed suppliers. The Supplier shall provide an integrated Transition, Implementation, Service Readiness and Exit Management Service acting on behalf of the Authority to coordinate activities across multiple suppliers, programmes and stakeholders whilst maintaining continuity of service, operational readiness and governance compliance throughout the transition lifecycle.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/096810-2026 |
| Notice type | UK6 - Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Award under framework |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 14 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 13 Oct 2026 |
| Contract period | 26 Oct 2026 - 25 Oct 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £3,000,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Pending |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Postcode area | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1P 4DF |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | FINYX CONSULTING LIMITED |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 14 Oct 2026 at 09:49 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/096810-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/096810-2026
  14th October 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://defra-family.force.com/s/Welcome
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h6vhtk-04eac3
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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