Issue - meetings
Increase in budget to fund ICT Roadmap expenditure
Meeting: 30/07/2014 - Council (Item 33)
Report of Director of Finance and ICT Client Section Head
Additional documents:
- Report to Cabinet, item 33 PDF 65 KB
- Appendix 1 - ICT - Addt Support Project Information, item 33 PDF 20 KB
- Appendix 2 - WBC - Roadmap - Costs - Members Briefingv1.1, item 33 PDF 6 KB
Minutes:
Council received a report of Cabinet, including the original report presented to Cabinet at its meeting on 23 July 2014.
RESOLVED –
that the increase of £906,917 to the capital programme be approved.
Meeting: 23/07/2014 - Cabinet (Item 15)
15 Increase in budget to fund ICT Roadmap expenditure PDF 65 KB
Report of Director of Finance and ICT Client Section Head
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 - ICT - Addt Support Project Information, item 15 PDF 20 KB
- Appendix 2 - WBC - Roadmap - Costs - Members Briefingv1.1, item 15 PDF 6 KB
- Background document 1, item 15 PDF 724 KB
- Background document 2, item 15 PDF 57 KB
- Background document 3, item 15 PDF 127 KB
Minutes:
A report from the ICT Client Head and Director of Finance stated that additional Capital funds were required in order to meet the ICT improvements required. The report proposed to initiate a programme of ICT improvements. A detailed version of the roadmap proposal was approved at Joint Leadership team on 3 February 2014.
The Council outsourced the ICT Service to Capita SIS in May 2013. Since outsourcing a number of problems raised during due diligence had been addressed either through specific and chargeable projects using existing budgets or through the managed service contract.
Despite some areas of improvement over the past few months there was still a recognition that the issues identified within due diligence posed a risk to the Council and that users were experiencing impaired performance in a variety of ways.
Therefore, project areas had been defined as an overall programme of ICT technical improvements from Capita SIS.
The Director of Finance commented that the Council needed to put in investment in order to make improvements due to the aging IT estate. This had also been brought about by the government’s requirements for new security arrangements.
Councillor Bell questioned whether further investment would be needed on top of what the report was requesting.
The Mayor responded that investment would continue to be needed to bring the service up to standard. The Director of Finance commented that the investment would have been needed whether the Council had outsourced the service or not.
RESOLVED
That Cabinet agrees to the additional capital budget required to complete the ICT improvements outlined in this report and recommends that Council approves the necessary increase to the capital programme.