"The current contract delivers a subscription service that leaves no deliverables after the subscription - no software, no improvements and no intellectual property after spending more than £330 million. All the specially written software and intellectual property rights belong to the supplier, says the contract. All the rights to any know-how are explicitly retained by the supplier and not passed across on termination of the contract."
"The FDP is awful to use, only benefits a quarter of its user organizations, and leaves the NHS owning no intellectual property for connecting software. The contract delivers no software - not one line - just a subscribed service; a permanent lock-in; a single point of failure."
The UK government has defended its £330 million contract with US firm Palantir to provide analytics infrastructure for the NHS Federated Data Platform. Palantir won successive pandemic-era deals worth £60 million without competition before securing this major contract. Critics, including Liberal Democrat MPs, argue the subscription-based service leaves the NHS with no intellectual property, software deliverables, or improvements after contract termination. The contract explicitly retains all software and intellectual property rights with the supplier, creating permanent vendor lock-in and a single point of failure. The partnership includes Accenture, PwC, NECS, and Carnall Farrar. Labour has questioned the value-for-money assessment provided to the previous Conservative government.
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