The UK’s privacy and data protection regulator has just signed a four year contract worth just shy of £5m to help deliver its planned data strategy.

The contract, which was delivered on 17 January and published on the 31st, went to Capgemini, a IT and digital transformation firm headquartered in France.

Last year, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a new data strategy, with intentions to make the ICO “an exemplar of responsible innovation using data.”

The ICO’s two overarching goals set out in the strategy including growing its data maturity, as well as delivering “tangible value” from its data and analytics for its own pursuits as well as those of its customers.

“Having a data strategy is crucial in setting out how we develop, manage, govern and use our data assets in pursuit of our purpose: to empower you through information,” John Edwards, the Information Commissioner, said when the ICO launched their data strategy last year.

The deal is set to aid the ICO in these ambitions, as the firm aims to provide the UK watchdog with “technical consultancy, strategic planning and transformation delivery support to drive the ICO’s data transformation and achieve our vision,” the filing read.

The £4.87m is set to go to Capgemini Financial Services with a UK basis in Woking, England, and will last until January 2029.

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The contract follows another deal set by the ICO with Kainos to help the organisation with their “CRM information, case management, and digital workflows.” That deal is set to last two years, with an expected worth of £1.2m.

The ICO’s move reflects one of their novel data strategy’s key points, which is to “show, not tell,” how do practice proper data protection.

“As a regulator, we’re shifting our guidance away from ‘don’t do’ to ‘how to’. In a similar way, our data strategy is setting an ambitious vision to ‘show, not tell’.”