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.