"The Cabinet Office, the strategic center of UK government, has handed a much-delayed project to migrate from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 (M365) to another department. The project, which began in May 2022, aimed to move around 15,000 Cabinet Office users to M365. A recent report from the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), the HM Treasury unit that advises government on major projects, said the initial approach was for the Cabinet Office to build its own IT system for this change, dubbed the "Falcon programme.""
"The NISTA rating for the project remained "red" in line with an earlier assessment from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (which NISTA replaced) for the final quarter of the 24/25 financial year. "This is primarily due to concerns that the Programme does not have the resources to transition the Cabinet Office Business Units (BUs) to the new services within the planned time frame. The delay in the Pilot, now projected for completion by September 2025, has contributed to this assessment," NISTA said."
Cabinet Office transferred a delayed migration of roughly 15,000 users from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 to another department. The migration began in May 2022 and was originally planned as an internally built platform called the Falcon programme. NISTA judged the Cabinet Office's approach not to be the most cost-effective and approved moving digital services to Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) managed by DESNZ. The new approach will extend the timeline but reduces whole-life costs from £51 million to £23 million by using an existing government service. Resource shortfalls and pilot delays have kept the project on a 'red' rating, with pilot completion now projected for September 2025.
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