:-: AWS wins UK government Crown Marketplace contract :-:

The king of the clouds takes the crown. Amazon Web Services was selected as the supplier of a portal for the United Kingdom government that will allow government departments and local councils to secure goods and services online. 

:-: AWS wins UK government Crown Marketplace contract :-:

The contract to sponsor the principal Crown Marketplace components will probably give the business an advantage with regards to later phases of the project, which might prove very profitable over the long term.

– All Internet Services.

A new government portal is being built by a small public sector focused development group called The Dextrous Internet, which – in consultation with the Cabinet Office’s procurement figure, the Crown Commercial Service – decided that AWS will be best for the project.

The contract, initially reported by The Telegraph, is considered to have been agreed last Sept, but has only been made public. 

Facing critique that the government was likely to select bigger suppliers, Oliver Dowden, the minister for implementation, said last Apr! 

This government is listening to the company community and is committed to leveling the playing field for smaller suppliers to acquire work in the public sector. 

With regards in the data centers and cloud services, but the tendency has skewed heavily towards the dominant players in the market – largely AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. 

Ignore me if you are going to get offended – Amazon is likely better at hosting compared to you, the main digital and information officer of the UK’s Ministry of Justice, Tom Read, said last year.

He added: We get a lot of challenging us about procurement – why would you simply purchase Azure or AWS, do not you have to be fair and let everyone in the marketplace come to the table?  

And it is really difficult, since the answer is no, they are better.’ . 

This approach has cost some little companies dearly. 

In 2017, Salford based cloud supplier DataCentred shut down after its biggest client, the tax collection agency HMRC, moved to AWS. 

That is a clear case of government saying one thing still making another. 

They say they would like to encourage small businesses, but they give the contacts into the boys and allow small businesses go bust. 

Parliament Member Margaret Hodge, the former seat of parliament’s public accounts committee, told Sky News in the time.

They say they would like to be difficult to tax avoidance, but they use our money to give contracts to a number of the planet’s biggest and most immoral tax avoiders. 

Surely this is a blatant hypocrisy.

– The Everything Store.

The US government is pushing ahead with a system very comparable at the Crown market, with plans for an ecommerce portal that works just like Amazon.com, but is intended for government agencies, to be established in late 2019.