Published date: 4 June 2020

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 10 December 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Information systems and servers - 48800000

  • Data services - 72300000

  • Computer-related services - 72500000

    • Computer support and consultancy services - 72600000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£9,800,000

Procurement reference

Microsoft_Azure_SCE_2020

Published date

4 June 2020

Closing date

10 December 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

As part of the departments Digital, Cloud Appropriate strategy, DWP continues to move its frontline application OFFICIAL workloads from On Premise Hosting (OPH) and transitional hosting to strategic public Hyperscale Cloud Hosting arrangements. This strategic arrangement delivers great benefits in the running of our frontline applications, as the workloads increase by:
• Providing high availability - as part of DWP's World Class Service
• Providing service flexibility - in commissioning at pace computing and storage capacity for supporting on-going development and maintenance of frontline applications (we can stand up and down such capacity to reflect the business demand profiles)
• Providing price flexibility - using on-demand pricing, where we pay for compute and storage capacity (increase or decrease) in line with business usage or by using reserved pricing where capacity usage is predictable for specific frontline applications.

More information

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

29 January 2020

Contract start date

1 April 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Total value of contract

£9,800,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SOFTCAT PLC

Address

Fieldhouse Lane
Marlow
Buckinghamshire
SL7 1LW
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 02174990

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Hybrid Cloud Services - Commercial Team

Address

2 St Peter's Square
Manchester
M2 3AA
England

Email

HARDWARE.COMMERCIALS@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK