£500m cloud, software, hardware contract awarded by government

The Government Procurement Service has announced a number of suppliers of have been awarded a £500m contract for cloud services, software applications and programming, and computer hardware. The hosting, ongoing operation and support of cloud services will be expected as part of the deal, according to a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union. The notice, published on Friday, references the Local Government Software Application Solutions framework agreement which was awarded in July 2011, and is not related to G-Cloud procurement. Training and consultancy services will also form part of two-year contract, which is on behalf of the public sector. Chosen suppliers will be expected to deliver a software application that is capable of interacting with other applications or systems, while the computer hardware aspect of the deal will include servers and storage systems. Firms that are part of the framework include: Aareon, Asidua, Atkins, Atos, Bramble, Capita, CACI, Civica, Compass Informatics, Corelogic, Hitachi, HTK, Idox, Innogistic, Ipswich, Lagan, Liberata, Liquidlogic, Logica, Managememycomplaints.com, Methods Consulting, Mott MacDonald and Mouchel. Northgate, Oxford Computer Consultants, Pitney Bowes Software, RSK Business Solutions, Siemens, Sirsi, Swift Datapro Software, System Associates, Valueworks, Whitespace Waste Software and Zipporah are all also named on the notice. The framework has a one-year extension option. This article is published by Guardian Professional. For weekly updates on news, debate and best practice on public sector IT, join the Government Computing Network here. • This story was updated on 30 January to include extra information about the contract.