Decision details

Procurement legislation requires GMP to tender for these goods and services. The recommended route provides the most effective route to market.

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a 3-year contract for Cloud Migration and Managed Service provider to ANS Group Limited with the option to extend for a further 1 year. The likely value of 4 years spend would be circa £1,871,395.

The following options were considered.
o Do nothing – rejected as non-compliant with Procurement Legislation and Chief Constable’s Financial Instructions.
o Undertake a bespoke procurement exercise (open tender) –rejected as there is a suitable framework available.
o Extend current arrangements – rejected as non-compliant with Procurement Legislation and Chief Constable’s Financial Instructions and GMP would be required to pay for Extended Support.
o Using GM-One network – rejected as the storage offering isn’t right for this project as it is a server and storage re-platform. Servers must remain adjacent to the storage for performance, security and data protection. The GM-One network does not work in this way. It will be considered for future operations as it could lead to significant savings as the local PoPs align to the location of GMP sites and GMP have just completed a refresh, removing copper and migrating all sites to 21CN fibre. However, GMP’s immediate requirements cannot be met by GM-One, specifically around ExpressRoute.