THE MICROSOFT PublIC SECTOR AgREEMEnTOvERvIEw OF PSA09

The Microsoft Public Sector Agreement (PSA09) saves money and delivers more choice “The new generation agreement will support public service delivery with a flexible and agile set of Microsoft solutions that maximise value for money.”

PSA09 delivers value, choice and flexibility

PSA09 is the result of an in-depth collaborative procurement engagement between Microsoft and Buying Solutions on behalf of the public sector. It paves the way for future models of software purchasing and will help organisations to meet emerging and future challenges in delivering public service reform.

Microsoft is offering the potential for public sector organisations to save money while achieving best value in procurement and gaining new tools to improve service delivery to citizens, communities, public safety organisations, and partnerships across the public sector.

PSA09 delivers the lowest price for public sector customers across all Microsoft software licensing programmes (Enterprise, Open and Select). Customers get the opportunity to address their licensing needs at pricing levels that are not solely based on customer size, but take into account the needs of the organisation, its employees, and external partnerships.

Tools to meet emerging challenges

In building a package-based approach with Buying Solutions, Microsoft is creating a new way of providing public sector workers with the software that they need to perform their work more effectively. This gives the public sector a new model for licensing, addressing its need for transferability, re-use, and flexibility. PSA09 gives the UK taxpayer cost-effective solutions for acquiring the tools that support new and emerging challenges in public service reform such as ‘tell me once’ where people requiring support from the public services only provide information once and not many times to different public sector organisations. In PSA09, Microsoft is offering value for money, greater choice and licensing flexibility, unique in its public and private sector agreements.

Under PSA09, customers can choose Microsoft Desktop packages, or Public Sector packages, for their Enterprise Agreement (EA). In addition, there is an extensive selection of additional products such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and security and productivity tools that help to underpin the solutions required by the public sector for 21st-century services.

value for money PSA09 addresses the changing requirements of public sector organisations over time through two key principles—pay for what is needed, and choose software for different types of user rather than by product alone.

The agreement provides the opportunity for different statutory partners, such as police forces, fire and rescue services, central Government departments and agencies, and local authorities, to collaborate more productively using cost effective new solutions. PSA09 ensures that, through collaborative procurement practice, the whole public sector pays only for what is needed, and benefits from the cost savings possible through this—from large Government departments to small local authorities.

Ensuring greater choice for government

Through PSA09, public sector organisations now have the flexibility to introduce a more varied mixture of Microsoft applications. This will reduce the need to license applications that may be unused, as well as simplifying the licensing packages needed by users. Eligible organisations will have the option to choose to license by functional requirement thus including all required client and server software licensing for specific business needs—for example, e-mail, collaboration, and unified communications. There are additional savings offered on a range of entry-level core packages for users who do not need to use the full suite of Microsoft software.

Matching business needs

The new agreement focuses on matching business needs with cost-efficient licensing models, taking into account the changing needs and partnership working challenges faced by public sector organisations. Transferability, re-use, and flexibility of licences are key features of PSA09—helping to save money when organisations or departments merge. The agreement supports public service delivery through technology by supporting more effective use of ICT for collaboration and secure information sharing.

You can find more information about the new Public Sector Agreement (PSA09) on the Web where you will also find details of who to contact for specific guidance on how best to apply PSA09 to the needs of your particular organisation. www.microsoft.com/uk/PSA09 www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk

PSA09: Customer Benefits Summary

Benefits Description

ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Package 1

Package 2

Package 3

Package 0

Package

YES

NO Sched 3&4: Select

Sched 1: Renewal

Sched 1: EAPerpetual

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Subscription?

Sched 2: ESA Subscription

NEW?

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ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Package 1

Package 2

Package 3

Package 0

Package

YES

NO Sched 3&4: Select

Sched 1: Renewal

Sched 1: EAPerpetual

Sched 2: EAPerpetual

Sched 1: ESA Subscription

Subscription?

Sched 2: ESA Subscription

NEW?

%

ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Package 1

Package 2

Package 3

Package 0

Package

YES

NO Sched 3&4: Select

Sched 1: Renewal

Sched 1: EAPerpetual

Sched 2: EAPerpetual

Sched 1: ESA Subscription

Subscription?

Sched 2: ESA Subscription

NEW?

%

ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Package 1

Package 2

Package 3

Package 0

Package

YES

NO Sched 3&4: Select

Sched 1: Renewal

Sched 1: EAPerpetual

Sched 2: EAPerpetual

Sched 1: ESA Subscription

Subscription?

Sched 2: ESA Subscription

NEW?

%

ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Package 1

Package 2

Package 3

Package 0

Package

YES

NO Sched 3&4: Select

Sched 1: Renewal

Sched 1: EAPerpetual

Sched 2: EAPerpetual

Sched 1: ESA Subscription

Subscription?

Sched 2: ESA Subscription

NEW?

%

All discounts based on the highest discount level available to Microsoft customers

Licence transfer between public sector organisations

Public Sector packages

Technology access for all users

The maximum discounts and additional benefits are available to public sector customers who participate in aggregated purchases.

New and renewing customers achieve significant savings on previous Microsoft licensing agreements

Public sector organisations can implement more effective ICT-enabled shared services and transfer licences to maximise re-use between different organisations when business requirements change.

Customers can choose from a selection of Public Sector software packages that address different requirements by role or function

Customers can define a proportion of users as deskless worker core package users (e.g. ancillary workers) who require limited access to ICT resources.

PSA09 delivers the lowest price for public sector customers across all licensing programmes (Enterprise, Open and Select) for aggregated purchase volumes

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