Decision details

Approval of the sourcing and procurement strategy for the council’s IT managed services.

1.  That the sourcing and procurement strategy for the council’s IT managed services as et out in the report be agreed for:

a)  the procurement to invite tenders for:

·  an Integrator service to be tendered through the Crown Commercial Service framework RM1058 for an initial contract period of 2 years with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years and with an anticipated start date of 1 November 2016.

·  an IT Hosting service to be tendered through the Crown Commercial Service framework RM1058 for an initial contract period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to 1 further year and with an anticipated start date of 4 January 2017.

·  a combined Network and Telephony management service to be tendered through the Crown Commercial Service framework RM1045 for an initial contract period of 3 years with the option to extend  for up to 1 further year and with an anticipated start date of 4 January 2017.

·  a combined Service Desk and End User Computing service to be tendered through the Crown Commercial Service framework RM1058 for an initial contract period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to 1 further year and with an anticipated start date of 4 January 2017.

·  an Application Transformation service to be tendered through the Crown Commercial Service framework RM1058 for a contract period of up to 3 years and with an anticipated start date of 4 January 2017.

b)  the in-sourcing to the existing IT central service team of the applications support services currently outsourced to Capita.