The Cabinet Office has switched to a new shared-service
ICT contract with
Fujitsu Services, worth
£8m a year.
The contract allows other public-sector organisations to benefit
from the contract, said the Cabinet Office.
Savings for the Cabinet Office will include £2.5m per year and a
reduction of more than 300 tonnes of
carbon emissions compared with its existing contract.
The new Flex contract can deliver a
shared service to multiple public-sector organisations to
deliver cost reductions through common infrastructure and more
effective collaboration and reuse of systems.
Discussions are already under way with interested public-sector
bodies, including the
Office of National
Statistics, said the Cabinet Office.
Government chief information officer John Suffolk said, “The new
Cabinet Office ICT deal is a win–win–win deal, for staff, for
taxpayers and for the environment.”
The contract will allow more flexible working and home working,
reducing travel and enabling more efficient use of office
accommodation.
Users will also be equipped with modern, efficient thin–client
devices, which consume a fraction of the energy used by traditional
PCs.
This factor alone is expected to reduce carbon emissions by more
than 300 tonnes each year, said the department.
The deal is part of the government’s
Transforming Government
Implementation plan.
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