The Municipality of Sipoo selects Enfo as its IT Partner .

The Municipality of Sipoo has selected Enfo as its IT partner following a competitive tendering process. The four-year agreement, valued at approximately €2.5 million, covers ICT services provided to the municipality. 

“The Municipality of Sipoo is procuring from Enfo ICT infrastructure services, cloud capacity operations and provisioning, Microsoft cloud service management, so-called managed services, as well as SIEM and SOC services”, says Juha Kukka, EVP IT Services of Enfo. 

“We were looking for the most cost-effective overall solution. The scope of the procurement was extensive, and the criteria were strict,” adds Ethel Eriksson, CDO of the Municipality of Sipoo. 

Emphasis on Development Capabilities 

The Municipality of Sipoo expects the new partnership to bring reliability and security to its operations. The agreement with Enfo is comprehensive and requires a wide range of specialist expertise. 

“We wanted a long-term partner for providing ICT services and a proactive, developmental approach to improving our IT environment – rather than a purely reactive focus on incident management,” Eriksson emphasizes. 

During the tendering process, the municipality evaluated the bidders’ ability to drive development work through practical tasks. 

“Our IT partner must have a strong perspective on how things should be done,” Eriksson explains. 
 
“Enfo has the expertise across all the service areas we were looking for,” she adds. 

Strict Information Security Requirements 

Information security requirements in the municipality’s IT environment are exceptionally high, as it contains specially protected data. 

“It’s important for us to prevent information security breaches proactively by maintaining a secure environment – and Enfo’s team understood this immediately. The realization of such risks would be catastrophic, as we have seen, for example, in Helsinki,” Eriksson says. 

“All data must be handled with the same precision required by the most critically protected information. During the tender, we verified the suppliers’ certifications and ensured that their information security practices and models met our requirements,” she continues. 

Completing Projects One by One 

Sipoo requested a quick start from Enfo but could not commit all of its limited digital administration resources at once. The extensive development effort has therefore been organized as a series of projects, each advancing one service area at a time. 

“We’re moving forward piece by piece. Advancing all projects simultaneously would consume too many resources. In practice, this means that Enfo’s experts are available during each project as a kind of rapid response team,” Kukka explains. 

“We’ve been able to reach an expert directly whenever needed, which is very important to us,” Eriksson concludes.