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Palo Alto Licences & Support, and Cisco Maintenance.

Decision Maker: Director: Policy, Strategy and Digital

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The services are required in order to maintain a secure, resilient IT estate. The contract term reflects the changing landscape of the council’s IT network, which is being redesigned and re-procured over coming years as part of its Digital Transformation Programme.

Decision:

To award a contract necessary to renew Palo Alto Licences

Alternative options considered:

Not renew the licences – but this would result in a loss of critical functionality stopping access to Line of Business systems, causing major impact to services. It would also remove our ability to protect the network against cyber security threats.

Publication date: 02/05/2023

Date of decision: 16/03/2023