In 2025, Atos UK&I has taken significant steps to demonstrate how its Future Ready strategy is not just a vision, but a practical framework driving public sector transformation and social impact.
Through projects in justice, sport, healthcare, and environmental services, Atos is applying its core strengths – spanning end-to-end IT delivery, AI-driven engineering, cybersecurity by design, deep sector expertise, sustainability, and a people-first approach. These strengths taken individually may not represent a differentiated value proposition to other competitors, but what evidently is the differentiator is the ‘future ready’ thread that runs through all of these strengths – solutions and services embedded into those capabilities that help clients respond to today’s demands while anticipating tomorrow’s needs.
Enabling a Modern Justice System
On June 10, Atos announced a £58 million contract extension with the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ), reinforcing its role as a critical delivery partner. The four-year deal, which includes an optional fifth year, builds on an existing relationship and extends the company’s role in managing digital infrastructure across the courts and tribunals system in England and Wales.
The contract covers critical back-end systems, from digital identity services and centralized computing platforms to data storage, recovery protocols, and physical data center operations. While largely invisible to the public eye, these services underpin the daily functioning of the British justice system.
Atos has long provided IT support to several UK public bodies, earning a reputation for its ability to manage complex, secure, and mission-critical systems. This contract extension demonstrates Atos’s deep domain expertise and sector knowledge, and its understanding of sector-specific regulatory and operational nuances. On a technical level, the deal exemplifies Atos’s ability to anticipate the impact of infrastructure changes across a highly interconnected estate, delivering adaptive systems resilient to both operational and legislative shifts.
Engineering the Premier League Calendar
A lesser-known operation, but one whose results are felt by millions of people across the UK, and many more around the world, is Atos’s role in generating the Premier League’s annual fixture schedule, a service it has provided since 1992. The announcement on June 18 that Atos had completed planning for the 2025-26 season highlights its enduring role in orchestrating the UK’s most watched sporting competition.
Using proprietary algorithms and deep problem-solving expertise, Atos designs systems that accommodate a constantly changing set of logistical and operational variables. The system balances a web of variables, such as alternating home and away matches, minimizing congestion in key metropolitan areas, accommodating international competitions, and addressing local policing demands. This reflects the company’s strength in engineering for the AI age – combining anticipatory technical design with a deep understanding of sector-specific constraints.
Advancing Gender and Social Equality
Capping off a high-impact month, Atos was named one of the “Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality” by The Times and Business in the Community on June 24.
This recognition follows the implementation of a set of progressive HR initiatives, including flexible work arrangements, pay gap closures, and confidential support through its “Safe Haven” programme for employees facing domestic violence. Atos supports outreach programs that encourage young girls to enter STEM fields through partnerships with schools and universities and has also earned third-party certifications as a Menopause Friendly Employer and a Disability Confident Employer.
This underscores Atos’s people-first technology approach, prioritizing well-being, inclusion, and workforce readiness. The STRIDE program, a global effort aimed at supporting mid-career women in tech, illustrates how Atos supports the development of a future-ready workforce through continuous learning, mentoring, and inclusive leadership practices.
Modernizing DEFRA’s IT Services
Earlier this year in March, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) awarded Atos a £150 million, five-year contract to modernize its end-user IT services for 34,000 staff. Designed with sustainability at its core, the solution reflects Atos’s end-to-end IT capability and supports DEFRA’s environmental mission through a performance-based device lifecycle, refurbished hardware with e-waste offsetting through a partnership with Circular Computing, and AI-powered workplace analytics.
The deployment includes advanced AI/ML-enhanced digital experience solutions, sustainable dashboards, and employee experience tools, all designed to improve operational efficiency while reducing environmental impact. By replacing devices based on performance data rather than fixed timelines, Atos introduces a predictive, sustainable model that sets a benchmark for public sector IT.
Aligned with DEFRA’s environmental values and the government’s security requirements, the program demonstrates cybersecurity by design and measurable social value integration, cementing Atos as a leader in delivering future-ready, sustainable digital workplace solutions across the public sector.
Taking a People-First Approach with NHS Scotland
As part of its digital applications work with NHS Scotland, Atos developed AI-enhanced breast screening capabilities designed to support – not replace – clinical professionals. The solution identifies subtle patterns in mammograms and ultrasound images that may be missed by the human eye, improving detection accuracy while empowering radiographers to make more informed decisions.
Co-designed with NHS Scotland, the system reflects a people-first technology approach, ensuring the AI aligns with real-world clinical practice and enhances, rather than displaces, professional expertise. This collaboration also showcases Atos’s engineering foundations for the AI age, combining technical precision with thoughtful design to deliver reliable, human-centered outcomes.
The project provides a scalable model for responsible AI in healthcare — one that strengthens diagnostic accuracy, supports clinical development, and prepares healthcare systems for a future of human-AI collaboration.
Consolidating Strategic Presence in the UK&I
Taken together, these developments reflect a deliberate, multi-layered strategy by Atos to strengthen its position in one of Europe’s most competitive and scrutinized markets. The UK and Ireland remain key regions for innovation and public service reform in which technology plays an increasingly important role in addressing societal challenges.
By focusing on sectors with both public visibility and structural importance, such as justice, healthcare, sport, and environmental services, Atos is helping public institutions respond to immediate demands while planning for the long term. These projects blend technical excellence with social value, showing how digital transformation can be delivered responsibly and at scale.
From modernizing court infrastructure to enabling responsible AI in healthcare and advancing gender equality, Atos’s recent work aligns with national priorities. In a period of rapid change, these initiatives offer examples of how technology can be applied in a way that is effective, people-centric and responsive to public needs.
Amid a rapidly evolving regulatory and political landscape, Atos UK&I’s recent activity highlights the importance of delivering technology in ways that prioritise trust, resilience, and inclusive outcomes.
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Atos UK&I: Bringing the ‘Future Ready’ Strategy to Life Across Public Sector and Social Impact Projects