Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Finance, Performance and Core Services introduced a report on the procurement of a Cloud Support Contract and IT Database Administration Management Service.

The Cabinet Member advised that the Council, until late 2020, had most of its servers and software applications in the Agilisys Private Datacentre (IaaS). Before the Elevate partnership ended on 9 December 2020, servers and software applications were moved to Microsoft’s Public Cloud Platform (Azure).  Agilisys, through the Elevate partnership, were managing the IaaS environment and built the Azure environment for LBBD, where most of the Council’s servers and software applications now reside. Contracts were extended for continued support for the Azure environment (based on the IaaS contract) and the CSP agreement until 9 June 2021.

The report therefore requested authorisation for the Council to procure a replacement managed service contract for Cloud Services, specifically: Microsoft Azure, Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), Database Administration (DBA) Service and a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) agreement.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree that the Council proceeds with the procurement of managed service contracts for Azure, Windows Virtual Desktop and IT Database Administration and a Cloud Solution Provider Agreement to purchase services from Microsoft, in accordance with the strategy set out in the report; and

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Managing Director, in consultation with the Strategic Director, Law and Governance, to award and enter into any contracts and/or agreements and any periods of extension with the chosen suppliers in accordance with the strategy set out in the report.