Dear Sir or Madam,

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.

Where possible, please break these costs out by function (for
example, development, design, updates, changes, hosting,
co-location, domain registration, licensing etc). Where the costs
have been incurred with external providers, please list the company
in question. For internal staff time, if this is not recorded
and/or charged explicitly, please provide estimates based on
salary/overheads of people involved.

Yours faithfully,

Nick

Dear Mr Mc Bride

Thank you for your e-mail of 8 July 2008 regarding information on the cost
of the Council's website. I am presently making enquiries with our IT
Department on the matter and I will be in contact with you again in due
course.

Yours sincerely

Ellen Molloy
Principal Officer - Finance

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Dear Mr McBride

Further to your request of 8 July 2008 please find detailed below
information which the Council holds on its Website.

Fermanagh District Council's website was set up in 2003 at a cost of
£15,990. This included development and design etc. at a cost of £15,610,
hosting costing £360 per annum, and domain registration costing £20 per annum.
In 2007 a general upgrade was carried out on our website at a cost of
£1,440 and this year 2008, a further upgrade was carried out at a cost of £1,120.
The initial set up was undertaken by an outsider provider 'Biznet', and
upgrades since then have also been carried out by 'Biznet'.
Internal staff's time is not available as this was not charged against the development of the website, however a reasonable estimate of cost would be in the region of £6,000.

I hope the information is helpful to you.

Yours sincerely

Ellen Molloy
Principal Officer - Finance

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Dear Ellen,

Thank you for this information. Just to clarify: the only costs in
2004, 2005, and 2006 were the £360 hosting + £20 registration? So
the amounts paid (or due to the paid) to Biznet each year have
been:

2003: £15,990

2004: £380

2005: £380

2006: £380

2007: £1,440 + £380 = £1,820

2008: £1,120 + £380 = £1,500

Is this correct?

Also, in relation to your estimate of £6,000 staff time: is that
purely for the dealings with Biznet over the initial (and possibly
subsequent) development of the website, or does it include time
spent by staff in maintaining the site (adding content etc)?

Thank you,

Nick

Dear Nick

Yes, the costs you have outlined from 2003 to 2008 is correct. In
relation to the estimate of £6,000 staff time - this is specifically for the development of the website at the outset. Staff's time in maintaining the website on an ongoing basis is not charged to the site.

Yours sincerely

Ellen Molloy

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Dear Ellen,

Thank you for this clarification. Is it possible for you to
estimate the costs involved in maintaining the site each year?

Thanks,

Nick

Dear Nick

Further to your enquiry of today regarding staff costs in maintaining the
Council's website, I am sorry it is not possible to provide an estimate
in this case as staff involved do not record their time or tasks
undertaken.

Yours sincerely

Ellen Molloy

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