FOI release

Information relating to cloud infrastructure at the GCA

Published 26 May 2023

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Sent by email 18 May 2023

Dear

Freedom of Information Act: Request for information on Groceries Code Adjudicator activities

Thank you for your email dated 26 April 2023 regarding cloud infrastructure at the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA). In your email you asked for the following information:

  1. The duration of time utilising cloud infrastructure.
  2. The criteria used to choose a cloud provider.
  3. The percentage of infrastructures employing cloud services.
  4. The supplier of cloud infrastructures used. (AWS/Oracle/Azure etc.)
  5. Case studies highlighting the successful implementation of the ‘Cloud-first’ strategy.
  6. The uptime of the cloud infrastructure.
  7. The annual budget over the last five years for IT-managed services.
  8. Please provide the percentage spent on cloud-managed services.

Duty to confirm or deny whether the GCA holds the information

Under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, anyone making a request for information to the GCA, as a public authority, is entitled to be informed in writing whether it holds that information, and if so, to be supplied with it.

 I can confirm that the IT services are provided to the GCA by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Accordingly, responses to your questions are as follows (numbered to match the numbering in the request above):

Questions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8: The GCA does not hold this information. IT services are supplied to the GCA by BEIS.

Question 4: IT services are supplied to the GCA by BEIS.

Question 7: IT services are supplied to the GCA by BEIS. The GCA spent £98,845 between financial years 2017/18 to 2021/22.

Appeals Procedure

If you wish to complain about the way in which your request for information has been handled, you may seek an internal review by writing, setting out the reasons you feel your request has not been dealt with effectively, to:

The FOI Review Co-ordinator
Groceries Code Adjudicator
7th Floor
25 Cabot Square
London
E14 4QZ

Alternatively you can email: [email protected]

We will aim to deal with your Internal Review request within 20 working days of receipt or, if that is not possible, advise you of a date when we expect to complete the review. If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the Internal Review you then have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The contact address is:

Information Commissioner's Office
FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,

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