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Adult Social Care Budget-Setting Process

Martin Heathcote made this Freedom of Information request to Essex County Council

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From: Martin Heathcote

10 November 2011

Dear Essex County Council,

Following a previous FOI response I understand that your budget for
a new adult social care IT system is £35 million. I wish to
understand the decision-making process which led to this particular
magnitude being selected, rather than a different sum. I do
appreciate that this procurement is underway, and so none of my
questions relate to any time during the procurement process itself
- at this stage I am solely concerned with decisions made prior to
the contract notice being published.

Q1 : Please supply, or provide a link to, the relevant committee
papers at which this budget was decided upon. Please include any
relevant documentation which explains the rationale behind this
particular budget being so large

Q2 : What benchmarking activities did the Council undertake? For
example, did you ask other local authorities how much they paid for
their social care systems? I spent literally 10 minutes on the web
and found a number of contract award notices which provided
high-level price information which was considerably less than your
budget for this project.

Q3 : Have Essex CC Internal Audit, or the District Auditor, been
asked to look into this project?

Yours faithfully,

Martin Heathcote

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From: Ruth Byford Research & Analysis Officer
Essex County Council

10 November 2011

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Please find attached an acknowledgement of your Freedom of Information
request.

Ruth Byford
on behalf of ISIS
Internal Audit & Risk Management
Essex County Council | telephone: 01245 435944 | extension: 55944 | email:
[email address]
EssexWorks
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Essex County Council

14 December 2011

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Appendix 1 20110328 01 ASC Strategic IT Project Board Minutes 20110221.pdf
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Dear Mr Heathcote,

Please find the attached letter and appendix in response to your recent
Freedom of Information request.

I apologise for the delay in responding to this request and the
inconvenience this may have caused.

Kind Regards

Stephen Hassett

Informatics Officer

Adults Health and Community Wellbeing

Essex County Council | telephone: 01245 434829 | extension: 40829 |

[1][email address] | [2]Intranet: Informatics

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