WA govt seeks Microsoft Power Platform backup tool

A Western Australian government department has released a tender for a backup and recovery solution for its Microsoft Power Platform environment, seeking third-party protection for its Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse data and configurations.

The Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety (LGIRS) says it wants a software solution capable of comprehensive backup and restoration across the Power Platform ecosystem - Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse - consistent with the customer’s obligations under the Microsoft Shared Responsibility Model, and covering Microsoft Dynamics, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Dataverse.

The department’s objectives are to enable automated and scheduled backups of Power Platform components, provide granular restoration of individual apps, flows and data tables, minimise downtime during restoration, and support compliance with data-protection and retention policies.

In scope are the backup of Power Apps configurations, environments and dependencies; Power Automate flows, triggers and connectors; and Dataverse tables, schema and relational data, along with environment-level backup that allows selective restore, cross-region support across all Microsoft Azure regions in Australia, and licence scalability to accommodate very large growth in dataset volume.

On functionality, LGIRS is asking for scheduled and on-demand backups, incremental and full options, versioning and retention policies, and granular or full-environment restoration with a preview-before-restore capability.

It also wants a dashboard for backup status with alerts for failures or anomalies, native integration with the Microsoft Power Platform Admin Centre, and API support for automation. Technically, the solution must be available as SaaS or on Azure, be compatible with Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, and support multi-factor authentication and single sign-on.

Notably, the department wants substantial headroom - scaling from its current 100GB to datasets “larger than 1TiB,” and elsewhere “into petabytes.”

Security requirements include encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access control, audit logs for all backup and restore activity, and compliance with the Western Australian Government Cyber Security Policy, with cyber-security compliance statements to be made available on request.

For support, LGIRS wants the option of either business-hours (8am to 5pm AWST) or 24/7 technical support, service-level agreements for backup and restore operations, and regular updates and patches.

The tender gives a sense of the estate to be protected through its current Microsoft licence counts, which include 3,070 Microsoft 365 E5 licences, 2,810 Power Apps Premium, 130 Dynamics 365 Customer Service, and smaller numbers of Power Automate Premium and Power BI Premium seats - though the department notes these counts may change.

The request closes at 2:30pm AWST on 14 October 2026.