The Agency for Governmental IT Services is an agency of The Ministry of Finance Group, which provides IT services to 18 ministries in the Danish Government counting approximately 29,000 users.
The Agency for Governmental IT Services is responsible for operating an effective IT support service and for ensuring a high quality and consistent IT service across the Danish government. Our main tasks include the development and harmonization of IT in the government and providing operational support.
In the next four years, our portfolio will expand with those state institutions, which currently stands outside a larger IT community. We will furthermore take over the responsibility for outsourced IT operations and supplier management from our new customers.
Advantages of collective IT operationHigher level of IT security: The Danish Agency for Governmental IT Services has been certified with the IT security standard ISO27001.
The Agency for Governmental IT Services strives towards these four strategic benchmarks.
The Agency for Governmental IT Services was established in 2010 as the result of a merger of eight ministerial IT operations organizations.
In the years 2010-2014, we implemented a number of projects that have resulted in a series of standardized common platforms and processes, which are now the basis for the participating institutions' daily IT operations.
The transformation from differentiated heterogeneous IT environments to standardized and homogenized environments on an inter-governmental level was a large and complex task but proved successful.
Today, the Agency for Governmental IT Services acts as the Danish state's internal IT operations organization.
With focus on accessibility, stability, efficiency and security of information, the Agency for Governmental IT Services provides services in four main areas:
The delivery of these services is an interaction between in-house production and external procurement based on a strategy of selective sourcing.