Public Sector ICT Landscape G-Cloud Programme

Andy TaitDeputy Director G-Cloud Programme

Why do we need a new ICT strategy?and what is it?

New technologies

Economic climate

Environmental

responsibility

New Administration Policy

““ We will promote small business procurement, We will promote small business procurement,

in particular by introducing an aspiration that in particular by introducing an aspiration that

25% of government contracts should be 25% of government contracts should be

awarded to small and mediumawarded to small and medium--sized sized

businesses and publishing government businesses and publishing government

tenders in full online and free of charge.tenders in full online and free of charge.””The Coalition: our programme for government

New Administration Policy

““We will take steps to open up We will take steps to open up

government procurement and reduce government procurement and reduce

costs; and we will publish government ICT costs; and we will publish government ICT

contracts online.contracts online.””The Coalition: our programme for government

New Administration Policy

““We will create a level playing field for We will create a level playing field for

openopen--source software and enable large source software and enable large

ICT projects to be split into smaller ICT projects to be split into smaller

££100m components.100m components.””The Coalition: our programme for government

Cabinet Office Structural Reform Plan

‘‘Reduce the cost structure of information Reduce the cost structure of information

and communications technology in and communications technology in

central government, while supporting central government, while supporting

technologies which increase citizen technologies which increase citizen

involvement, transparency and involvement, transparency and

localisationlocalisation’’

(3. ICT Strategy)

What does the New Administration Policy mean for Government ICT?

Two fold plan:Two fold plan:--

oo Short term: ICT can contribute to budget Short term: ICT can contribute to budget deficit savingsdeficit savings

oo Medium and Long term: ICT can offer Medium and Long term: ICT can offer new ways of saving money, new ways of saving money, streamlining/improving current services streamlining/improving current services and use of common infrastructureand use of common infrastructure

What are we doing?

Writing a new ICT Strategy which will reflect our desire to:

- Simplify- Standardise- Automate

What is today’s ICT Landscape – by numbers

200K+ servers across PS

10,000+ distinct applications

No aggregation of application demand

No data mobility between departments

130+ Data Centres in central Government

£16.9 bn approximate ICT spend per annum.

Potential “G-Cloud” benefit 30% of annual costs.

Under or over software licensing at a departmental level

Thousands of DC, and comms rooms across public sector

Private sector achieves 60% cost reduction through Cloud

90,000 servers within central government running at <10% utilisation

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How does G-Cloud fit in?

“The G‐Cloud brand provides confidence in ICT services you can trust – reliability and security, value for money.”

“Data Centre Consolidation: Delivering Public Sector ICT services from the optimum number of high performing, energy‐efficient, resilient, and cost‐effective”

“The Application Store for Government‐ the online marketplace  for Public Sector ICT Services.”

Goals for the Programme

Reduce ICT costs, supplier lock-in, time from idea to service and carbon footprint Create open, vibrant competitive marketplace

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These will be achieved through:Deployment across the whole of Public Sector

Sharing and re-use of all relevant Public Sector ICT services across organisational boundaries

Driving standardisation and simplification

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The G-Cloud

“The G‐Cloud brand provides confidence in services you can trust – reliability, security, value for money, contractual probity, adherence to standards and enables Government ICT Strategy.”

G-Cloud, isn’t one thing: It has five “worlds”: Hosting, Testing, Sharing, Web, SME. Departments want and need different things so G-Cloud needs to offer them flexibility to make the offer compelling…

“Hosting world”My computer systems are fine, I just want to close my data centres and use yours.

Give me economies of scale, security and growth, reduce my capex need

“Testingworld”

I don’t want to buy computers to test new systems, can I rent them from you?“Shared world”

ERP – HR/ Finance

DirectGov

Gateway & ID

BusinessLink

Shared App

What can be shared, should be shared.  Common shared systems for all too use.

data.gov “SMEworld”

I want to use your G‐Cloud to offer services to my non Government customers.  UK tax growth, innovation

“Web world”Online/web services to employees/ citizens and business

Apps

G-Cloud Governance - The AuthorityThere will be one overall authority for the G-Cloud which will share it’s structure with the PSN and Common Desktop.

The Authority will be responsible for: •Agreeing standards•Overseeing procurement and certification processes•Resolving any cross-organisational issues•Encourage all Public Sector organisations to use G-Cloud and Apps Store services wherever possible•Support the Public Sector to create new Cloud services where there are no existing ones available

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What is the Application Store (ASG)?

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The ASG will be the online ICT Marketplace for the Public Sector

“Find IT, build IT, run IT, share IT”

Services in the Store will include:

G-Cloud Certified ICT Applications and

solutions

Other ICT Services; PSN, Hardware,

Common Desktop, Service Management etc

Access to a development toolkit

There will be a Certified Zone and an Open Zone‒ Services in the Certified Zone will have been "pre-procured”‒ Innovation encouraged in the Open Zone

Products available in a standardised, simple and low cost way whilst maintaining legal compliance. Price and Performance Rating will be visible for comparison, promoting competition and service excellence.You can search or advertise for new applications and services. Services at “Latest Best Price”

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How will the ASG work?

TodayHundreds of public sector data centres running to different standards;-

some at capacity limits, others with unused space.

“Delivering Public Sector ICT services from the optimum number of high performing, energy-efficient, resilient, cost-effective and standards based data centres”

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Data Centre Consolidation

End pointSignificant Central Government DC reduction

by 2020, and a reduction of 80% across the wider Public Sector.

Goals• Reduce to an optimum number of modern,

resilient, efficient and secure data centres that may also act as infrastructure for the G-Cloud.

• We want to maximise the amount of consolidation to help the Public Sector achieve savings.

Introduction to Foundation Delivery Partners

Foundation Delivery Partners (FDPs) will be “Public Sector bodies who have volunteered to build the initial G-Cloud services”

Services being Considered:

‒ Web Hosting and Content Management

‒ Infrastructure as a Service

‒ Public Cloud Services

‒ Collaboration Tools

‒ Secure Email

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Finalise Implementation plan for the G-Cloud

Document standards, certification and guidelines

Forge ahead with the Foundation Delivery Partners

Initiate the Data Centre Consolidation activity

Deliver Proof of Concept for ASG

G-Cloud Priorities