Dear Mr. Kitt

Re: Request under the 2000 Freedom of Information Act

Thank you for your email dated 2 May 2010, requesting information on The UK Supreme Court website. I understand that you have already received a reply from Mrs. Achow of the UK Supreme Court (UKSC), relating to information from October 2009. Your request for information prior to October 2009 has been passed to me as it relates to work carried out by Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ICT, for which I am the Knowledge and Information Liaison Officer (KILO). Please accept my apologies for the delayed response.

I have answered your questions according to the order they were asked in your original request, as follows:

FOI Question 1 Can you please detail, for each year since your public website was launched, how much money has been spent on creating, developing, and running it; including every separate version of it since it began. Please break this down by each separate website you run.

The cost to create and develop the UKSC and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) websites was £360k in total. The development of both sites was treated as a single project and therefore the costs cannot be broken down by website.

FOI Question 2 Where possible, please break these costs out by function (for example, development, design, updates, changes, hosting, co-location, domain registration, licensing etc).

The project was delivered under a fixed price contract for the total solution, consequently costs are not separated.

FOI Question 3 Where the costs have been incurred with external providers, please list the companies in question.

Logica and Open Objects.

FOI Question 4 For internal staff time, if this is not recorded and/or charged explicitly, please provide estimates based on salary/overheads and time of people involved.

This information is unavailable as this was only one of a number of work-streams within the Supreme Court Implementation Programme. The internal staff worked across the whole Programme, and there are no specific breakdowns for website costs.

FOI Question 5 I would also be grateful to receive full disclosure of the tendering process including proposals of all unsuccessful bidders.

No tendering process took place, as the work was let to Logica under the existing DISC commercial framework and to Open Objects as part of their on-going service provision.

FOI Question 6 Please also detail future budget allocations for public websites where these have been considered.

I believe that Mrs. Achow provided information on the 2010/11 budget for the website. We do not hold any further information on future budget allocations.

If you are unhappy with the result of your request for information, you may request an internal review within two calendar months of the date of this letter by writing to: Data Access and Compliance Unit, Information Directorate, Ministry of Justice, 6^th Floor, Zone B, 102 Petty France, London SW1H 9AJ.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely

Stuart Cole

KILO

MoJ ICT

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