Infrastructure
Modernisation
Existing contracts expire. New commercial frameworks open. Agencies that have their transition capability in place before the deadline move. Those that don't, wait.
A Hard Deadline Is Not a Strategy.
Existing all-of-government infrastructure contracts are expiring. New commercial frameworks open access through the Government Marketplace on modern, flexible terms that include cloud-native and software-defined capability. For most agencies, this is not a routine renewal. It is a transition that requires planning, architecture, and specialist execution.
Contract expiry without a transition plan
Oct/Nov 2026 is a fixed point. Agencies that haven't started scoping their transition now are compressing the window for design, procurement, and migration execution into a timeline that doesn't accommodate delay.
BAU running on ageing infrastructure
Legacy servers, on-premise environments, and end-of-life platforms create operational risk while the transition is planned. Most agencies don't have spare internal capacity to manage the BAU environment and execute the migration simultaneously.
Cloud migration is not a lift-and-shift
Modern infrastructure frameworks expect cloud-native design, software-defined networking, and security-by-design. Migrating existing workloads without rearchitecting them replicates technical debt in a new environment.
There Is Less Time Than It Looks Like.
Infrastructure transitions involving procurement, architecture, and migration have predictable timelines. Working backwards from the contract expiry reveals how little planning runway remains.
Transition scoping and architecture
Current-state assessment, target architecture design, and migration sequencing. This is the work that must be done before procurement can open. Agencies without capability in place now are already at risk of compressing this phase.
Procurement and vendor engagement
SOW finalisation, Marketplace procurement, and specialist resource engagement. Procurement cycles take time. The agencies that start Q2 with architecture ready will finish. Those still scoping in Q2 will not.
Migration execution and parallel running
Workload migration, network transition, and parallel environment management. The peak delivery phase. Specialist engineers, network architects, and cloud platform specialists required at full capacity.
Contract expiry. No extension assumed.
Existing IaaS and TaaS contracts expire. Agencies on new Marketplace agreements are operating under modern commercial terms. Agencies still mid-transition are managing risk.
From Architecture Through to Managed Operations.
The full infrastructure transition lifecycle. One relationship covering every phase without a new procurement at each handover.
Infrastructure Assessment & Architecture
Current-state infrastructure audit, cloud readiness assessment, target architecture design, and migration sequencing plan. Delivered as a scoped outcome with defined deliverables before migration begins.
Migration Tranches
Azure cloud migration, workload rearchitecting, and platform build for defined migration tranches with bounded scope and milestones.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Specialist cloud engineers and platform architects deployed across the migration window.
Network Modernisation
Software-defined networking, SD-WAN, and network uplift aligned to new TaaS framework requirements.
Network Transition
Network architects and engineers deployed as the network transition workstream opens. Continuity from design through to commissioning.
Backup, DR & Resilience
Backup and disaster recovery architecture and implementation for new DR capability delivery.
Ongoing DR & Monitoring
Ongoing managed backup, monitoring, and recovery testing once the environment is live.
Managed Infrastructure Operations
Post-migration managed infrastructure service. Server management, patching, performance monitoring, incident response, and capacity management. SLA-backed continuous operations from the team that executed the migration.
One Approval. Every Phase of the Transition.
Architecture and migration, scoped and delivered.
Infrastructure assessment, target architecture, and migration tranches are defined-outcome workstreams. SOW via Government Marketplace Professional Services. Fixed deliverables, fixed accountability.
Specialist engineers when the workstream opens.
Cloud architects, platform engineers, network specialists, and migration engineers placed via AOG TAS. Agency-directed. Available within 48 hours. Stepped down when each workstream closes. No emergency hire cycle mid-transition.
Operations handed off from day one of go-live.
The team that delivered the migration transitions to managed infrastructure operations. No onboarding gap. No context rebuild. Managed service covering the new environment from the moment it goes live.
The engineer who built the environment manages it. No handover. No knowledge loss. No gap between delivery and operations.
When does your IaaS contract expire?
If you had to answer that in the next ten seconds, could you?
The Transition Window Is Open Now.
Talk to us about your infrastructure transition. We'll map the capability, timeline, and deployment model that fits your contract expiry date.