The government has taken the next step towards the creation of the G Cloud with a tender notice, posted on the Government Procurement Service website, for a £60m framework to provide cloud computing services across the public sector. It has invited suppliers to bid for four 'lots', covering infrastructure as a service, …

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Monday 24th October 2011 04:13 GMT Anonymous Coward

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Er...

It sounds like they are going for 3 clouds rather than one for the different *AAS things... all done by different vendors....

You know that integrating these is going to be a clusterfcuk of epic proportions.

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1. Monday 24th October 2011 10:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  But it wouldn't be a UK government IT project if it wasn't a clusterfrack of epic proportions. This should be obvious.
  
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2. Monday 24th October 2011 18:30 GMT Sam Therapy
  
  Indeed
  
  Normally I don't upvote any AC but your judicious use of "clusterfuck" gave me no choice. Well said, that person.
  
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Monday 24th October 2011 11:11 GMT Anonymous Coward

Goverment procuring

Putting food in sales persons mouths since the dawn of civilisation.

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Monday 24th October 2011 14:07 GMT Semaj

FFS

When will they learn?

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Monday 24th October 2011 22:37 GMT steeplejack

But do they know what they want it for?

The lucky suppliers may find that satisying the application requirements is loose and easy. I doubt whether any have been properly specified. On another aspect, all users must have an ID, and the UK and public sector doesn't have any federated login system or ID. What's the betting we'll have multiple public sector networks (criminal justice, national health, social work, etc) each with different and incompatible id management...

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