The govenrment has tendered for its £60M G-Cloud Contract.

The tender states: Government Procurement Service as the Contracting Authority is putting in place a Pan Government Collaborative Framework Agreement for use by UK public sector bodies identified at VI.3 of the relevant OJEU Contract Notice (and any future successors to these organisations), which include Central Government Departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies and Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies, Local Authorities and devolved administrations.

The above Public Sector Bodies have a need for a compliant Procurement Vehicle to access Cloud Computing Services.

Government Procurement Service reserves the right for an electronic auction to be held by Public Sector bodies during further competition among the parties to the Framework Agreement(s).

The requirement is divided into Lots. The Lots are as follows:

Lot 1 - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Lot 2 - Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Lot 3 - Software as a Service (SaaS)

Lot 4 - Specialist Cloud Services