# Provision of an ADS Technical Design Office \(TDO\)

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Army Commercial.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Army Commercial](/buyers/army-commercial/contract-awards)
- Supplier: Cloud Native Ltd
- Award value: £7,450,000
- Tender value: £7,450,000
- Award date: 27 November 2025
- Published: 19 December 2025
- Contract start: 29 November 2025
- Contract end: 31 May 2027
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 2b1a37c6-405f-4b5f-9df8-4b14644026d4-876814
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-83016580-5a37-43f7-b8e4-ea98d5f0ef07

## Description

This contract has already been awarded\. Army Digital Services \(ADS\) wishes to contract a supplier to provide a comprehensive Technical Cloud Architecture Design, Security and Support \(TCADSS\) Service\. The service will be delivered as an outcome-focused, self-managed capability that assures, designs, delivers, and evolves the ADS Army Cloud and related platforms\. In summary \(detailed in Schedule 1\), the service will provide: • Technical Cloud Support Service to deliver ADS Army Cloud initiatives, ensuring provision, management, support, and exploitation of the Army Cloud across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments\. • A Technical Design Office \(TDO\) Service, acting as the through-life design authority for all ADS-owned systems and services\. This will deliver Solution, Security, System, and Platform Architecture functions, ensuring alignment to Enterprise Architecture while providing ongoing assurance, governance, and roadmaps\. • Platform Engineering functions spanning the full development lifecycle, including environment provisioning, CI/CD integration, automation, resilience engineering, and 4th line incident escalation\. • Deployable and Land Systems support, designing and delivering mission-ready, secure, and resilient deployable services for tactical and contested environments\. • Cost Modelling & Compliance Functions, including through-life cost modelling for cloud hosting and design services, Software Asset Management \(SAM\) design and approach for licence compliance, and platform compliance assessments\. • Security Operations Support, including the design and infrastructure management of the ADS SIEM solution, ensuring integration with the SOC and Land mission systems\. • Enterprise Architecture Tools Management, ensuring ADS architecture artefacts, models, and reference patterns are maintained and integrated within a central repository\. • Innovation & Emerging Technology Advisory, including horizon scanning, R&D proof-of-concepts, and AI initiatives, ensuring ADS can adopt, trial, and exploit new technologies securely and effectively\. Additional information: This contract has already been awarded\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2b1a37c6-405f-4b5f-9df8-4b14644026d4-876814)