Microsoft Cloud Navigator

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Dear Somerset County Council,

Microsoft offer a consulting and implementation service called Cloud Navigator. An outline of this service can be found on the Digital Marketplace https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.g... although that is not the exclusive procurement route. There are two phases:
- a free consulting phase to determine if an authority would benefit from cloud services and a varying package of material generally including some kind of business justification (up to a full business case) and an implementation plan; and
- a paid for engagement, subject to procurement, to transition the authority onto the Microsoft cloud platforms.
Clearly, the free consulting phase is designed to create a desire in an authority to procure a paid for piece of work.

Please can the authority:
1. Confirm if it has benefited from Microsoft’s free consulting services linked to Cloud Navigator.
2. Confirm if the authority has bought a Cloud Navigator implementation from Microsoft (either phased projects or an overall programme).
3. If Cloud Navigator has been invested in, what the procurement route was and the competitive process to ensure best value.
4. Confirm if the agreed works have delivered to specification, cost and schedule.

Yours faithfully,

Paul Isaac

Sales in Practice

Somerset County Council, Somerset Council

Somerset County Council Information Request Team
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Our reference: 3545265

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Dear  Mr Isaac
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for your request for information about  Microsoft Cloud
Navigator  which we received on 23 April 2018 .

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Simon Butt
Information Request Officer
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Somerset County Council, Somerset Council

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Information request
Our reference: 3545265

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Dear  Mr Isaac
 
Thank you for your request for information received on  23 April 2018 .
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Simon Butt
Information Request Officer
Communications
01823359359
 
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