Specifically, the MoD will be leaning on Microsoft to create a “bespoke” Azure-based private cloud infrastructure, the notice goes on to state, that will mark out the ministry as “the first and largest customer in the UK and Europe running UK-hosted Azure services in the cloud”.
It also goes on to flesh out the technical reasons why the organisation had not sought bids from any other provider for this project, with the MoD ISS team citing data protection concerns, alongside the need for direct access to specialist Microsoft cloud personnel and developers to deliver it.
