The Government of Ontario has invested in a wide selection of software products to deliver services to the citizens of Ontario, including software supporting the data centre hosting infrastructure and business applications./
The establishment of an Enterprise Software Reseller Vendor of Record (VOR) arrangement will improve the processing time to acquire software, maintenance and support and will reduce administrative and vendor burden and enable efficiencies in renewing contracts.
Additionally, the Software Reseller VOR arrangement will bring methodologies that enable better spend visibility on software products across the province, review and validate return on investment for these software products, evaluate efficiencies and utilize this data to negotiate future volume-based discounts.
This VOR arrangement may optionally be used by Provincially Funded Organizations. The term of this arrangement is for three years with the option to extend the contract for two additional one-year terms in accordance with the same terms and conditions.