{"id":79712,"date":"2017-03-14T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c3b77f41c7d20ccf0bb0067e8c79fe57"},"modified":"2017-03-14T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:47:24","slug":"news-story-framework-authority-for-crown-hosting-services-transfers-to-ccs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79712","title":{"rendered":"News story: Framework Authority for Crown Hosting Services transfers to CCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 1st March 2017, Crown Commercial Service became the new custodian of the Framework Authority of the Crown Hosting Service (CHS), transferring from the Cabinet Office \/ Government Digital Service (GDS).<\/p>\n<p>The CCS Cloud &amp; Digital technology team is now responsible for setting the strategic direction of travel and commercial delivery.<\/p>\n<p>CHS has a single supplier framework agreement for the provision of data centre colocation services to Central Government organisations and other public sector bodies. The supplier is Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited (CHDC).<\/p>\n<p>One of the main aims of CHDC is to be the transition point in supporting the UK Government\u2019s \u201cCloud First\u201d policy through implementation of a robust framework with public sector customers, from which it is easy to procure highly efficient data centre colocation services on a flexible contract basis.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for the current team working on Crown Hosting to transition to CCS. Due to the increasing portfolio of customers and overall growth planned, the business has made a strategic decision to align Crown Hosting with other commercial agreements, enabling wider commercial conversations with Central Government customers and better promotion across the Wider Public Sector.<\/p>\n<p>The framework has been negotiated with the whole Public Sector data colocation requirement, constituting the best possible value-for money.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/crowncommercial.gov.uk\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdWiyeO3d_KCeRJ_8YIThyAsJoaBNAuAC3s2zb5r05fouzK7A\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\">complete the Crown Hosting Services online form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Commercial Service is the new custodian of the Framework Authority of the Crown Hosting Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}