HP Enterprise Services UK is helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) compete for public sector contracts by offering 200 additional services under the UK Government’s latest G-Cloud 5 framework.
The government’s G-Cloud initiative aims to accelerate the UK’s journey to the cloud by making it easier for public sector bodies to consume commodity IT services without running a full tender or competition procurement process. Through the UK Government CloudStore, public sector organisations can securely access 13,000 services from more than 700 suppliers – over 80 percent of which are SMEs.
“HP’s new G-Cloud 5 offerings provide SMEs with a low-cost entry point into the secure IT services market,” said Stuart Bladen, regional vice president, UK Public Sector, HP. “Through our SMEngage program, HP gives SMEs the opportunity to be involved in public sector projects. Around a third of the companies in our UK supply chain – nearly 600 individual businesses – are SMEs.”
As well as competitively priced pay-per-use cloud services, HP now offers desktop services with messaging and communications options through G-Cloud 5. New HP workplace services will further simplify the procurement process for G-Cloud users as well as SMEs, helping them grow their businesses in the public sector.
Delivered from HP-owned UK data centers that are global benchmarks for energy efficiency,
HP’s cloud services meet government security accreditation criteria. HP’s secure Government Virtual Private Cloud hosting service was recently granted the UK’s Pan-Government Accreditation (PGA) at Impact Level 3 (IL3), as well as CSASTAR (Cloud Security Alliance Security Trust and Assurance Registry) silver certification from the BSI (British Standards Institute).
Through its SMEngage program, HP works with an ecosystem of partners, enabling SMEs who do not have their own accreditation to compete for public sector business for which they might not otherwise be eligible.
