Jul 21, 2020
Oldfield Consultancy was brought into Defence Digital as Expert Advisors to Business Case Development and Management as well as Programme Management. We have a long history in developing Business Cases for CAT A/B/C procurements, taking them through scrutiny and onwards into implementation. Oldfield Consultancy has performed this function for NATO upgraded IT Capability and IT as well as CASD Infrastructure. Overall we have managed over a Billion Pounds worth of programmes for defence.
Defence Digital is an extremely complex programme of work, dealing with widespread, interlinked and complex IT and Infrastructure that is compartmentalised by supplier or category. This meant a significant amount of discovery work had to be completed before analysis could take place. For Defence Digital we worked up options for moving away from the current contracts and into, not only a brand new, forward facing new configuration of IT and Networks, but new providers. Oldfield Consultancy, working with the current and feasible IT capability, financial constraints, military constraints and requirements as well as future-proofing the options produced a widely acknowledged and bought into set of future options. We cut through the complexity of the programme to distil key evidence into the traditional option set in order to move forward with assessment and audit. Working with Scrutiny we built up an option portfolio that was acceptable to all stakeholders and then presented to Ministers.
Coming in ahead of time and under budget, we added huge value in this space.