Presentation on the ICT landscape for the public sector preresented to annual conference of public sector IT management organisation, Socitm, on 12 October 2010

1. Public Sector ICT Landscape
G-Cloud Programme
Andy Tait
Deputy Director
G-Cloud Programme

2. Why do we need a new ICT strategy?
and what is it?
New technologies
Economic climate
Environmental
responsibility

5. New Administration Policy
“ We will promote small business procurement,
in particular by introducing an aspiration that
25% of government contracts should be
awarded to small and medium-sized
businesses and publishing government
tenders in full online and free of charge.”
The Coalition: our programme for government

6. New Administration Policy
“We will take steps to open up
government procurement and reduce
costs; and we will publish government ICT
contracts online.”
The Coalition: our programme for government

7. New Administration Policy
“We will create a level playing field for
open-source software and enable large
ICT projects to be split into smaller
£100m components.”
The Coalition: our programme for government

8. Cabinet Office Structural Reform Plan (3. ICT Strategy)
‘Reduce the cost structure of information
and communications technology in
central government, while supporting
technologies which increase citizen
involvement, transparency and
localisation’

9. What does the New Administration
Policy mean for Government ICT?
Two fold plan:-
o Short term: ICT can contribute to budget
deficit savings
o Medium and Long term: ICT can offer
new ways of saving money,
streamlining/improving current services
and use of common infrastructure

10. What are we doing?
Writing a new ICT Strategy which will reflect
our desire to:
- Simplify
- Standardise
- Automate

11. 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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12. How does G-Cloud fit in?
“The G‐Cloud brand provides confidence in ICT
services you can trust – reliability and security,
value for money.”
“The Application Store for Government‐ the online
marketplace for Public Sector ICT Services.”
“Data Centre Consolidation: Delivering Public
Sector ICT services from the optimum number of
high performing, energy‐efficient, resilient, and
cost‐effective”

13. Goals for the Programme
Reduce ICT costs, supplier lock-in, time from idea
to service and carbon footprint
Create open, vibrant competitive marketplace
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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14. 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.”
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15. 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…
“Testing
world”
DirectGov I don’t want to buy computers
to test new systems, can I rent “Hosting world”
“Shared world” them from you?
My computer systems
ERP – HR/ Finance are fine, I just want to
close my data centres
Shared App Gateway & ID and use yours.
BusinessLink Apps
What can be shared, Give me economies of
should be shared. data.gov “SME scale, security and
growth, reduce my capex
Common shared world” need
systems for all too use.
I want to use your
G‐Cloud to offer
“Web world” services to my non
Online/web Government
services to customers. UK tax
employees/ growth, innovation
citizens and
business

16. G-Cloud Governance - The Authority
There 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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17. What is the Application Store (ASG)?
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
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18. How will the ASG work?
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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19. Data Centre Consolidation
Today
Hundreds of public sector data centres running to different standards;-
some at capacity limits, others with unused space.
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.
End point
Significant Central Government DC reduction
by 2020, and a reduction of 80% across the
wider Public Sector.
“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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20. 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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21. G-Cloud Priorities
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
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