Tyneside-headquartered technology consultant Opencast has won a £32.4 million contract to support the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions over the next two years.

Under the contract, Opencast will support DWP Digital with teams working across product, delivery, analysis and accessibility. It builds on Opencast’s growing relationship with one of the government’s largest departments.

Since starting work with DWP four years ago, Opencast has helped DWP in enabling the delivery of citizen-facing services.

Through this latest contract, Opencast will support teams across product management, agile project management, delivery management and business analysis, along with specialist accessibility support roles.

Opencast Chief Growth Officer Harry Armstrong said: “We are delighted to have been chosen by DWP in this contract win. It is among the largest single contracts secured by Opencast to date, and offers us a huge opportunity to deliver more human-focused solutions at scale in critical public services.”

Opencast already has a place on the government’s Digital Specialists & Programmes (DSP) procurement framework, under Lot 2 ‘digital specialists’. This enables the company to provide a full range of digital, data and technology (DDaT) skills needed for end-to-end digital transformation programmes, as well as individual DDaT practitioners to work as part of an existing or new teams.