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Bryan Carmichael made this Freedom of Information request to Cheshire West and Chester Council
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From: Bryan Carmichael
25 October 2011
Dear Cheshire West and Chester Council,
Please can you provide me with the following information;-
for each of the areas shown below - can you provide
1: Method of Service Provision e.g. In-house, Outsourced, Mixed
2: If not in-house the name of the provider(s)
3: The name of the solution(s)
4: The cost for each activity
Areas of interest
ICT
Data and voice Network and Support
Hardware and support
Applications and Support
Financial Systems used for
Accounting
Management Accounting
Risk Insurance
Internal Audit
Transactional HR System(s)
Payroll System(s)
Yours faithfully,
Bryan Carmichael
Cheshire West and Chester Council
28 October 2011
RE: Your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Case Reference: 101000066359
Dear Mr Carmichael
Thank you for your email. It will be treated as a request within the meaning of the Act: this means that we will send you a full response within 20 working days, either supplying you with the information which you want, or explaining to you why we cannot supply it. If we need any further clarification or there is any problem we will be in touch.
In the meantime if you wish to discuss this further please contact me. It would be helpful if you could quote the log number 66359.
Yours sincerely
Miriam Wallace
FOI Unit
Solutions Team
Cheshire West and Chester Council
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From: FOI West
Cheshire West and Chester Council
2 December 2011
Dear Mr Carmichael
Further to your Freedom of Information Request, Log Number 66359. Please
find our response below.
Financial 1: Method 2: If not 3: The name 4: The cost
Systems used of Service in-house the of the for each
for: Provision e.g. name of the solution(s) activity
In-house, provider(s)
Outsourced,
Mixed
Data and voice In-house with Avaya Avaya Avaya
Network and some external Software,
Support maintenance Support and
Maintenance
£251k (£125k
Hardware and
£126k SS&U) –
Shared with
Cheshire East
Hardware and In-house with A&O Desktop, £2,000,000 –
support some external Laptop and shared with
maintenance Server estate Cheshire East
( Dell and HP
hardware),
software &
services e.g.
cabling
Applications and In-house with Microsoft Microsoft EA £600,000 for
Support some external licensing
maintenance support and
maintenance
Accounting & in-house but Oracle Oracle £432k
Management with some (Estimate)
Accounting external
(integrated maintenance systems
system) licensing
costs
Insurance External Marsh Limited STARS £16,318 per
database on annum to
external provide the
server software
licences, the
server space,
the support,
and quarterly
transfers of
data from all
claims
handling
companies
Risk In-house N/A N/A N/A
Internal Audit External Magique Galileo Annual Cost of
Galileo licenses:
Software Ltd £1932.00
Transactional HR In-house with Bottom Line PayBase £8988
System(s) some external Technology
maintenance
Please note that the costs quoted are not the costs of providing the
function, just the IT systems used to facilitate providing it.
I trust this answers your enquiry.
If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled, you can request a review by writing to:
Solutions Team
Cheshire West and Chester Council
HQ
58 Nicholas Street
Chester
CH1 2NP
If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
The Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45
Website: [1]www.ico.gov.uk
There is no charge for making an appeal.
Yours sincerely
Miriam Wallace
FOI Unit - Solutions Team
Cheshire West and Chester Council
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