Half a billion quid Cloud investment announced by Whitehall

A £500m Cloud services contract has been awarded by government to more than 30 suppliers who have been named on the pan-government framework agreement for hardware and software.

 

The two year framework, which has a one-year extension option, is for Cloud services, software applications and programming and computer hardware.

 

The hosting, ongoing operation and support of such services will be expected as part of the deal, according to a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union. Training and consultancy services will also form part of two-year contract.

 

Chosen suppliers will be expected to deliver a software application that is capable of interacting with other applications or systems, while the computer hardware aspect of the deal will include servers and storage systems.

 

Firms part of the framework include: Aareon, Asidua, Atkins, Atos, Bramble, Capita, CACI, Civica, Compass Informatics, Corelogic, Hitachi, HTK, Idox, Innogistic, Ipswich, Lagan, Liberata, Liquidlogic, Logica, Managememycomplaints.com, Methods Consulting, Mott MacDonald and Mouchel.

 

Suppliers Northgate, Oxford Computer Consultants, Pitney Bowes Software, RSK Business Solutions, Siemens, Sirsi, Swift Datapro Software, System Associates, Valueworks, Whitespace Waste Software and Zipporah are all also named on the notice.