Norfolk County Council has tendered a new IT cloud framework, in a contract valued at potentially more than £100 million over a seven year period, with the option for a two year extension.

The new deal is designed to complement existing IT services provided in house, while providing modern services, desktops, laptops, tablets, email and remote capabilities.

Norfolk County Council said the need for the new cloud infrastructure came from the “council and its partners - including schools - wish to engage with a strategic technology partner which will implement a secure, resilient cloud-based environment hosting the council's systems".

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