The Cabinet Office has extended a contract for its use of Google Workspace applications by a year despite a longer term plan for a transition to Microsoft 365.
It has prolonged its arrangement with Cloud Technology Solutions for the provision of Google Cloud, Platform, the AODocs document management system, the Cisco CloudLock security add-on and the Cloudpages server control panel, all under a call-off from the G-Cloud framework.
The contract award notice indicates that this has taken the value of the deal – initially agreed for a two-year run in September 2021 – from £5.8 million to £9.4 million.
This comes despite the intention to migrate business information and data to Microsoft alongside the development of a new IT system for the department. In April it signed Capgemini as technical delivery partner for the project on an £11.7 million contract.
The contract extension reflects the complexity and time needed for a major transition.
The Cabinet Office began to use Google applications in 2015.
