HMRC signs £175m ten-year AI and sovereign data deal

Quantexa selected by HMRC

Jenna Brown
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HM Revenue & Customs has awarded a £175m ten-year contract to Quantexa to roll out artificial intelligence across the department.

The business said the contract would modernise HMRC's data foundation and enable "sovereign, governed AI at national scale". It added it was one of the public sector's largest ‘decision intelligence' deployments, intended to drive efficiency, protect public funds, and "enhance the customer experience" for UK taxpayers. The programme will support the modernisation of HMRC's core data infrastructure, the business said, giving the UK's tax authority a "clearer, connected view of its data to improve performance, help identify tax at risk, and strengthen control". Quantexa founder and C...

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