BIS takes action on Government transformation agenda
The deal enables BIS to meet one of the key objectives of the government's service transformation agenda - to rationalise the number of partner websites.
BIS partners, including government agencies, non-departmental public bodies and their goverment departments that share a Minister with BIS, can migrate their content to the BIS website or maintain a sub-site of BIS with their own identity using shared hosting and content management services at no additional annual service cost.
The service includes:
- Sitecore Content Management System
- Fully managed hosting of BIS and partner websites on Eduserv’s Government Ready Platform
- Secure remote access
- Business Continuity
- 25% year-on-year growth of the BIS site.
Eduserv’s Government Ready Platform is a shared virtual hosting platform developed uniquely for government organisations. It enables sites to be deployed quickly and will incur no annual service charges for BIS partners.
The service is scheduled to go live in March 2010.
Julian Mitchell, Public Sector Manager at Eduserv, said:
“The contract is a great opportunity for BIS and its partners to efficiently rationalise their websites. We are actively supporting the government’s service transformation and greening ICT agendas through our hosting and development services.
“The Government Ready Platform was used to host the BIS interim website. It is more resilient, better value and quicker to deploy than standard hosting platforms.”
Paul Reynolds, BIS ICT Deputy Director, said:
“The pricing model of the contract means we can work with our partners to rationalise and host their websites for a small set-up cost and no annual service charges. This will be very cost effective in the long run as we work to meet the objectives of the government’s service transformation agenda.
“We are currently hosting the interim BIS site with Eduserv and the new site, which is fully resilient with business continuity, should push reliability and availability to new levels. This contract will provide many additional benefits to us and our partners including this highly resilient, low cost hosting for our partners.”