You asked

Please can I make a freedom of information for the following questions:

  • What Mobile Device Management Solution are you using? And when is the renewal date?

  • How many handsets?

  • What type of handsets?

  • What are you using for instant messaging?

  • What solution are you using for Mass Communication? i.e bleepers? And when is the renewal date?

  • What is your mobile budgets per year?

  • Who is you mobile phone provider?

  • What reseller do you buy your Software through?

  • Who is the decision maker for IT Purchasing?

  • What email exchange server are you running? Cloud or on premise?

  • Who do you currently use for penetration testing?

  • Best contact for Mobile & IT Projects

We said

Thank you for your request. The answers to your questions are as follows;

What Mobile Device Management Solution are you using? - Airwatch.

And when is the renewal date? - July 2020.

How many handsets? - Circa 1,100 IOS.

What type of handsets? - Apple IOS (desktop voip CISCO moving to Skype for Business Q1/2018).

What are you using for instant messaging? - Skype for Business internally (not on mobile devices); on mobile devices no corporate product is yet adopted.

What solution are you using for Mass Communication? i.e bleepers? And when is the renewal date? - No technology in place other than corporate email solution. There is currently no renewal date.

What is your mobile budgets per year? - Vodafone £303k and EE £118k.

Who is you mobile phone provider? - Vodafone and EE.

What reseller do you buy your Software through? - There are numerous resellers used – Framework Tech Products 2, Lot2.

Who is the decision maker for IT Purchasing? - For direct approaches use pu.projects@ons.gov.uk

What email exchange server are you running? Cloud or on premise? - On premise.

Who do you currently use for penetration testing? - This varies and taken off relevant frameworks as required. It is currently G-Cloud framework.

Best contact for Mobile & IT Projects? - For direct approaches use pu.projects@ons.gov.uk