Parliamentary ICT (PICT) on behalf of the House of Commons and House of Lords is seeking to procure a contract for the provision of strategic web hosting for the Parliament website (www.parliament.uk), Parliament Intranet and other online channels.

Parliament’s online channels are high profile increasingly business critical and in the last 12 months received 16 000 000 visits, from 10 000 000 unique visitors, with daily visitor traffic varying from a low of 6 000 visits to a peak of 158 000.

The supplier will be responsible for providing a service which meets service levels around availability, support and issue management. The supplier will be expected to demonstrate flexible commercial models which ensure Parliament can get value for money and be proactive in ensuring that Parliament’s online channels are delivered in a resilient, secure and robust way.

We are keen to work in partnership with the supplier to take advantage of new opportunities that technology can provide and provide a flexible and scalable service that can accommodate all Parliament’s web hosting needs over the next three to five years.