Decision details

Incur capital expenditure of £1,991,400 on Phase 1 of essential work required to the Council’s 251 key business applications and 000’s of Access databases to ensure they are complaint with legislation (GDPR, PSN and PCI) corporate ICT infrastructure upgrades (ESP) for 2018/19.  This significant investment in the Cyber agenda will help ensure that the ongoing threat to our information and systems is minimised.  Expenditure will allow the council to retire and replace end of life and non-compliant critical corporate reporting capabilities as well as ensuring council applications will run successfully on the new Windows 10 operating system being implemented under the Essential Services Programme (ESP).  It will also allow the council to have a planned programme of application consolidation, refresh and retirement which will afford the potential for financial savings in hardware, software, support and maintenance costs.

The Director of Resources and Housing authorised that the Council incurs expenditure of £1,991k on the 2018/19 Application Portfolio Programme outlined in the associated report which includes the specialist resources (internal and external) to implement the programme.

Appendix 1 to this report has been marked as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rules 10.4 (3) on the basis that it contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) which, if disclosed to the public, would, or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of that person or of the Council.  The information is exempt if and for so long as in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.  In this case the report author considers that it is in the public interest to maintain the exemption

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