Ministry of Justice signs £14m cloud contract

Its Steria ERP system will be hosted by Savvis

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a £14m five-year deal to have its ERP system hosted in the cloud.

It is expected that this will deliver annual savings of £28m a year by 2014.

Cloud infrastructure company Savvis will provide the MoJ with access to its Government Wide Service (GWS) platform.

GWS is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform that has been made available to all government departments and third-party suppliers in the UK.

It was developed to help the government achieve its ambition of creating a G-Cloud - a hosted environment for public sector IT operations and services.

The MoJ will use GWS for its ERP system, which is being designed by Steria, and will be implemented by Accenture.

The ERP system will deliver transactional and professional services to more than 80,000 users, including functions such as human resources, finance, purchase and payroll.

It is expected that this will be fully operational by spring 2013.