Crown Commercial Service as the Contracting Authority has put into place a Framework Agreement for use by UK public sector bodies identified at VI.3 in the Contract Notice (and any future successors to these organisations), which includes Central Government Departments and their arm’s length bodies and agencies, non-departmental public bodies, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies, NHS bodies, local authorities and universities.
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 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.
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.
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.