G-Cloud 14 (Lots 1-3)

Organisation

The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service

Cloud hosting services sold through G-Cloud are cloud platform or infrastructure Services that can help buyers do at least one of the following: Deploy, manage and run software, provision and use processing, storage or networking resources. Buyers only need to pay for what they use. The G-Cloud cloud hosting Lot is equivalent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definitions of ‘Platform as a Service’ and ‘Infrastructure as a Service’: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdf G-Cloud cloud hosting Suppliers will provide services in at least one of these categories: Archiving, backup and disaster recovery Compute and application hosting Container service Content delivery network Cyber security Database Data warehousing NoSQL database Relational database Load balancing Logging and analysis Message queuing and processing Networking (including Network as a Service) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure and platform security Distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) protection Firewall Service intrusion detection Protective monitoring Search Storage Block storage Object storage. This Lot is for Direct Award only. No Further Competition is permissible. Additional information: All compliant Applicants have been awarded a place on Lot 1 The duration of the Framework is 18 months. The maximum initial duration of any Call-Off Contract that may be placed by eligible Contracting Authorities is up to 36 months with an optional extension of 12 months

Cloud Software Services sold through G-Cloud are applications that are accessed over the internet and hosted in the cloud. Buyers only need to pay for what they use. The G-Cloud cloud software Lot is equivalent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of Software as a Service: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdf G-Cloud cloud software Suppliers will provide cloud software services in at least one of these categories: Accounting and finance Analytics and business intelligence Application security Collaborative working Creative, design and publishing Customer relationship management (CRM) Cyber security Electronic document and records management (EDRM) Healthcare Human resources and employee management Information and communication technology (ICT) Legal and enforcement Marketing Operations management Project management and planning Sales Schools, education and libraries Software development tools Transport and logistics This Lot is for Direct Award only. No Further Competition is permissible. Additional information: All compliant Applicants have been awarded a place on Lot 2 The duration of the Framework is 18 months. The maximum initial duration of any Call-Off Contract that may be placed by eligible Contracting Authorities is up to 36 months with an optional extension of 12 months

Planning - the provision of planning services to enable customers to move to cloud software and/or hosting services; Setup and Migration- the provision of setup and migration services which involves the process of consolidating and transferring a collection of workloads. Workloads can include emails, files, calendars,document types, related metadata, instant messages, applications, user permissions, compound structure and linked components; Security services - Maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of services and information, and protect services against threats; Quality assurance and performance testing - Continuously ensure that a service does what it’s supposed to do to meet user needs efficiently and reliably; Training; and Ongoing support - Support user needs by providing help before, during and after service delivery This Lot is for Direct Award only. No Further Competition is permissible. Additional information: All compliant Applicants have been awarded a place on Lot 3 The duration of the Framework is 18 months. The maximum initial duration of any Call-Off Contract that may be placed by eligible Contracting Authorities is up to 36 months with an optional extension of 12 months

32

total contracts

£34700.0m

total value

£3,855,555,556

average contract size

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WAC Reference

WAC-49188

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