“It is another example of the CCS’s commitment to achieving outstanding commercial value for our customers across the public sector.” Philip Orumwense, commercial director and chief technology procurement officer at the CCS, said: “This agreement recognises the significance of cloud computing to the UK public sector as it continues its digital transformation and aims to build back better. A £2bn procurement framework has gone live that will offer public sector datacentre operators access to technologies that will assist with the decarbonisation of their server farms.This puts a greater emphasis on datacentre transparency. Defra recently reported that “cloud-first” IT strategies are driving green information and communications technology in government.The MoU is the latest in a long line of similar deals that Microsoft has struck with the government’s procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), which in recent years have become increasingly populated by cloud products and services. “We look forward to continuing to work with our public sector customers to improve citizen services and provide cost-effective solutions now and in the future.” “The addition of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to the DTA21 line-up can now also help with agile, low-cost, low-code application development, which has been so critical in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Microsoft is committed to working with the government to help support modern hybrid working and help drive the move to digital with Microsoft 365 and Azure,” he said.
To this end, the DTA21 MoU will see public sector organisations offered discounts on the use of Microsoft 365, the company’s flagship suite of online business productivity services, and its public cloud platform, Microsoft Azure.įor the first time, the company’s enterprise resource planning platform Dynamics 365 and its process automation offering, Microsoft Power Platform, will also be covered by the MoU.Ĭhris Perkins, general manager of public sector sales at Microsoft UK, said the DTA21 MoU has been drawn up to support any size of public sector organisation in its move to the cloud. The Digital Transformation Arrangement 2021 (DTA21) MoU is set to run for three years from until April 2024 and will give all eligible public sector organisations access to preferential pricing and beneficial terms of service on a mix of Microsoft cloud products, as well as related consultancy and support.
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