Issue - meetings

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Finance and Assets

RESOLVED

That the bid submitted by Company A be accepted and they be awarded the contract as the preferred supplier of the managed service for the Census Cloud hosting environment.

REASON

To progress the agreed Census ICT strategy and move to the cloud, a managed service provider is required.

The Cabinet Member for Finance and Assets reported that, in December 2016, the Census Joint Committee had agreed a new strategy for the Partnership which would see local data centres transferred into the cloud, which would provide a number of benefits to the delivery of IT for all the member Councils.

A key part of the support of this new environment was the procurement of a managed service provider to provide:

·        Design of the new cloud hosting environment

·        Transition of applications and data into the new environment

·        Support of the new environment once in production.

Following a procurement exercise, Company A had emerged as the preferred bidder by providing the highest scoring responses to the criteria for the tender whilst also demonstrating value for money over the length of the contract.

The Finance and Assets Policy Development Advisory Group had discussed the proposal.

            RESOLVED

            That the bid submitted by Company A be accepted and they be awarded the contract as the preferred supplier of the managed service for the Census Cloud hosting environment.

            REASON

            To progress the agreed Census ICT strategy and move to the cloud, a managed service provider is required.