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Government

Public Sector Projects, Hosted Where You Say

Run departmental programmes, grant funded work, and digital services on infrastructure you own, with a record of every decision.

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What does government project management need?

Public sector delivery has three constraints that commercial projects do not always share. Data often has to stay inside a national or departmental boundary. Spending has to be accounted for to somebody outside the department. And decisions have to be traceable years after the people involved have moved on. Orangescrum covers planning, delivery, and cost, and the Self-Hosted edition installs on your own servers, private cloud, or an air gapped network.

The problem

Why public sector programmes stall

Hosting rules rule the tool out
A tool is chosen, then rejected because the data would sit in another jurisdiction under a foreign vendor.
A self-hosted edition inside your own boundary.
Spend has to be justified late
An oversight body asks what a programme cost and the answer is assembled from finance exports and memory.
Budget and cost tracked against the work as it happens.
Contractors work outside the system
Suppliers and delivery partners are kept off the tool to save licenses, so status arrives by email attachment.
Unlimited users with access scoped per project.
Staff turnover erases context
The person who knows why a decision was made has moved department, and nothing was written down.
Permanent activity history and a wiki that stays with the work.
What matters here

Sovereignty, accountability, and a record that lasts

  • Your infrastructure, your boundary

    The Self-Hosted edition runs on your own servers, private cloud, or an air gapped network, with no outbound dependency on us.

  • Role based access

    Permissions per project and per role, with SSO, OAuth, and LDAP or Active Directory sign in on Self-Hosted.

  • Traceable decisions

    A permanent history of who changed what and when, kept on the work item rather than in somebody's inbox.

  • Budget and cost

    Set a budget per programme and watch actual cost build from logged work, ready for the next spending review.

  • Programme roll up

    Group related projects across departments and see progress and cost for the whole initiative.

  • Departments and suppliers together

    Unlimited users on every plan, so delivery partners are inside the system with access to their own work only.

How it works

How an agency gets started

1
Settle the hosting question first
Self-hosted inside your boundary, or cloud if your policy permits it.
2
Paperwork before people
Review the data processing addendum and the service level agreement with your legal and commercial teams.
3
Connect identity and set roles
Sign in through your existing directory, then scope each department and supplier to its own projects.
4
Run and account for the work
Plans, milestones, and cost update as work is logged, so reporting is a view rather than an exercise.
Who it's for

Where public sector teams use it

Digital service delivery
Agile delivery teams with sprints, boards, and clear ownership.
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Capital and grant funded programmes
Budget, cost, and milestone reporting across projects.
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Cross department initiatives
Many projects, one programme view.
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Availability

Which edition includes what

Orangescrum runs as managed cloud, self-hosted on your own servers, or as the open-source Community Edition. Here is exactly what each one includes.
Available in Cloud and Self-Hosted. Self-hosted is the usual choice for public sector buyers.
CapabilityCloudManaged SaaSSelf-HostedOn-premise / private cloudOpen SourceCommunity Edition
Projects, tasks, and boards
Role based access control
Runs on your own infrastructure or air gapped
SSO, OAuth, LDAP and Active Directory
Document management with approvals
Visual workflow designer
Budget and cost trackingPro
Program managementPremium
Frequently asked questions

Government project management FAQ

Can Orangescrum run inside our own network?

Yes. The Self-Hosted edition installs on your own servers, a private cloud tenancy, or a fully air gapped network. It does not phone home, so project data stays inside the boundary your policy defines, and you control backups, retention, and access.

Is Orangescrum FedRAMP authorised or ISO certified?

No, and we will not suggest otherwise. Those are formal, independently assessed programmes and we hold no such authorisation. What is true is that the Self-Hosted edition puts the software inside infrastructure your own accreditation already covers, access is role based and reviewable, and every work item keeps a permanent activity history. Tell us what your assessment requires and we will answer each point directly, including where the answer is no.

Where can we see your data processing terms and service levels?

Both are published as part of this section. The data processing addendum sets out how data is handled for the cloud edition, and the service level agreement sets out availability and support commitments. Links to both are at the bottom of this page, and your legal team can review them before any procurement conversation starts.

Does it handle procurement, tendering, or e-signature?

No. Orangescrum manages the delivery of the work, not the buying of it. There is no e-tendering portal, no contract repository with signature workflow, and no records management system. Those stay in your specialist tools, and the project work that follows a contract award is what we track.

Can suppliers and contractors be given access?

Yes. Every plan includes unlimited users, and permissions are role based per project, so a supplier sees only its own workstream. There is no license cost argument for keeping delivery partners outside the system.

How is it priced for a department?

Flat monthly plans with unlimited users: Basic is 29 dollars a month, Pro is 69, and Premium is 349. There is no per seat count to forecast, which makes the budget line stable even when a programme scales up or brings in a partner.

Can we enforce our own approval steps?

Yes, in the Self-Hosted edition. The visual workflow designer lets you define statuses, the transitions allowed between them, and who is permitted to make each move, so an approval gate is enforced by the tool rather than by convention.

What happens to the record when staff move on?

It stays with the work. Activity history, comments, decisions, and attached documents remain on the task or project regardless of who has left, and a wiki can hold the background context that would otherwise live only in one person's head.

Deliver public sector work on infrastructure you control

Cloud or fully self-hosted, including air gapped. Every plan includes unlimited users.