Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services

The UK's government department for agriculture and the countryside has upped the potential contract value on offer for cloud and datacenter hosting by more than £100 million. In a procurement notice published late last week, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs said it was looking for suppliers to provide a …

[Doctor Syntax]

Farming's not really important in Whitehall. It's something that happens outside the North & South circulars. Even outside the M25

[xyz]

any chance of some....

MOBILE CONNECTION OR BLOODY BROADBAND so that farmers can actually complete all the forms they have to fill in? Some fuck off cloud and DC shenanigans ain't much use if farmers can't fill in jack shit.

[VoiceOfTruth]

How much extra value does this provide?

Or is it just another cost which will be added to the tax payer somewhere?

[Anonymous Coward]

Really?

Is cloud really cheaper when at government scale? If not why the headlong rush?

[Anonymous Coward]

Key acceptance criteria: water-saving email deletion function.

[Roger.bone]

Cannot understand the Cloud First government strategy. It's not like they are transforming/refactoring workloads so it'd going to be IaaS on hyperscaler which is bloody expensive!

It's just moving one technical debt onto another.

And at £245m that contract is going to one of the obvious System Integrators lime Capita or Cap Gem...good value?