SCC wins 10-year IT infrastructure contract with Oxford City Council
SCC, Europe’s biggest independent IT services business, has won a 10-year IT infrastructure contract with Oxford City Council.
The five-year agreement, with the option to extend by a further five years, sees SCC awarded a single contract to deliver: Data Centre Hosting, Server & Storage, Server Technical Support, Database Administration, and Network Security Infrastructure & Support.
Key to Oxford City Council’s decision to choose SCC as its infrastructure partner was Sentinel by SCC, the secure, multi-tenanted Cloud platform built specifically for the public sector, which the council will use for Data Centre Hosting.
Sentinel, the first Pan-Government Accredited Cloud platform of its kind, provides flexibility, enabling the council to scale server requirements up or down and pay only for what it uses.
This is expected to deliver immediate cost-savings of more than £150k per annum which can be reassigned to the delivery of public services.
Sentinel by SCC protects data to Official & Official Sensitive (IL2 & IL3) security standards, and already supports a number of other major public sector organisations, including: Civil Aviation Authority, DWP, Highways England, HMRC, Yorkshire and Humber CSU, and Mersey Care NHS Trust.
Oxford City Council Head of Business Improvement Helen Bishop said: “Throughout the process, SCC consistently showed itself to be professional and responsive by taking note of the information provided and the specification requirements, and offering relevant and comprehensive technical solutions.
“In the past two years Sentinel by SCC has delivered 100% availability. The references, site visit, and stakeholder interviews confirmed that SCC’s culture of customer service was a good fit for this contract and matches the culture and aspiration of Oxford City Council.”
Kelvin Ayre, Practice Manager for Sentinel by SCC, added: “We are delighted to have been awarded this contract by Oxford City Council; Sentinel by SCC represents the very best fit for the city’s requirements.
“As government changes, so does the shape of city councils – resulting in the need for a solution that is flexible, scalable, and cost-effective. That’s exactly why we’re seeing so much success with Sentinel, and we look forward to a successful, long-term partnership with Oxford City Council.”
SCC’s Data Centre & Cloud Services business posted an 87% increase in FY15, and was recently named Best Performing SaaS Partner at Becrypt’s annual awards, recognised for product innovation and forward thinking for Sentinel by SCC.
Find out more about SCC: http://www.scc.com/
Visit the Sentinel by SCC page: http://www.scc.com/sentinel
View current DCS & Cloud vacancies at SCC: http://www.scc-careers.com/
Shaun Staff
Marketing Communications Manager
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shaun.staff@scc.com
About SCC
We enable people to do business by planning, supplying, integrating and managing their IT. We make IT work through partnership, knowledge and passion: trusted to run IT infrastructure services for leading business across Europe for 40 years.
Points of interest:
- Europe’s largest independent IT Services business
- Top 3 UK Data Centre & Cloud Services provider
- The technology division of Rigby Group PLC
- Profitable track record since 1975
- SCC revenues: £1.55bn
- Over 5,000 employees
- Supporting more than 5 million users
- Leading strategic partner to all key vendors.
About Sentinel by SCC
You hold sensitive public sector data – Sentinel protects it.
Sentinel by SCC not only provides faster IT implementation but also keeps your data secure to Official/Official Sensitive security standards, as the most established and cost-effective cloud solution from the first Pan-Government Accredited provider.
- Government-accredited secure data solution
- More agile IT procurement
- Economies of scale
- Flexibility to grow and release resources as needed
- Lower-cost 30-day contracts, removes ‘lock-ins’
- Hosted at SCC’s multi award-winning Data Centres in the UK.
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