New Signature has signed a two-year deal with the Metropolitan Police to support its public cloud.
The contract was awarded through the G-Cloud framework and is part of the Met’s three-year digital policing strategy. For those who came in late, the strategy seeks to modernise technology for users in the force and improve the general public’s digital access to the police.
New Signature said the deal is “one of the largest” G-Cloud procurements to date was not saying how much cash was involved.
New Signature founder Dan Scarfe said that the deal was an important momement for the Met in terms of moving their digital work to the cloud and in moving away from their traditional global system integrator (GSI) partners who would normally have scored the project.
He claimed the Met’s move to the public cloud comes from a desire to address the lack of speed and agility it experienced using traditional datacentres and GSIs.
Scarfe added the deal is transformational for New Signature, opening up a range of new markets and customers for the cloud service provider.
Angus McCallum, CIO for the Metropolitan Police, said: “We are very pleased to have selected New Signature to help us as we start to develop and implement our ‘Cloud-First Strategy’ transition.
“The Met is committed to ensuring all our people have the right technology to do their jobs with excellence and New Signature’s involvement is a critical part of building our capability and achieving fast results.”
New Signature has been acquired by services giant Cognizant.
