# Cloud Management and Improvements

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DfTc - Department for Transport](/buyers/dftc-department-for-transport/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Glue Reply Limited \(a trading name of Reply Ltd\)
- Award value: £6,000,000
- Tender value: £6,000,000
- Award date: 31 October 2023
- Published: 20 March 2024
- Contract start: 1 November 2023
- Contract end: 31 October 2026
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 3f0d33f2-e258-48fe-b7bc-719eb7271dc4-733813
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-3212fcbf-6d5e-4155-83c4-db67b8a02f0e

## Description

Improving and enhancing our cloud provisions in the areas of security, automation and cloud savings, identifying improvements and developing new foundation solutions\. Includes - review and assess our current cloud management set up and recommend an efficiencies and automation roadmap\. - review security and identify improved use of cloud security features\. - support on implementing the recommendations as agreed\. Areas of improvement Cloud engineering improvements and foundation technologies to support financial efficiency, automation, security\. It will cover 1\. Identity and Access management - citizen access, B2B and third party access and management, cross-gov access and data sharing\. 2\. Cloud Automation: cloud management improvements 3\. Critical infrastructure on security \(automation supporting technology policies\) 4\. Fin ops - management of the size of the Cloud estate and reducing costs based on redundant needs and moving serverless 5\. Infrastructure as code: Automation of landing zones and dev and data environments

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/3f0d33f2-e258-48fe-b7bc-719eb7271dc4-733813)