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

8th July 2008

Dear Mr McBride

REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Thank you for your e-mail of 8th July 2008 in which you requested access
to information held by the Council under the above legislation.

In your e-mail you requested access to the following information:

For each year, since Limavady Borough Council's website was launched, you
asked how much money was spent on creating, developing,and running it.

You asked that, where possible, these costs be broken down by function
(for example, development, design, updates, changes, hosting,co-location,
domain registration, licensing etc).

Where the costs were incurred with external providers, you asked for a
list of the companies in question.

For internal staff time, if this is not recorded and/or charged
explicitly, you asked for estimates based on
salary/overheads of people involved.

We have now commenced processing your request in accordance with Freedom
of Information guidelines and will be in contact with you again in the
near future.

Yours sincerely

Elizabeth Beattie
Corporate Policy Officer
Limavady Borough Council

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30th July 2008

Dear Mr McBride

REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Thank you for your e-mail of 8th July 2008 in which you requested access
to information held by the Council under the above legislation.

In your e-mail you requested access to the following information:

For each year, since Limavady Borough Council's website was launched, you
asked how much money was spent on creating, developing,and running it.

You asked that, where possible, these costs be broken down by function
(for example, development, design, updates, changes, hosting,co-location,
domain registration, licensing etc).

Where the costs were incurred with external providers, you asked for a
list of the companies in question.

For internal staff time, if this was not recorded and/or charged
explicitly, you asked for estimates based on salary/overheads of people
involved.

I wish to confirm that the Council does hold some of the information that
you have sought access to and I attach to this e-mail an Excel spreadsheet
which gives the Council's response to your queries.

Please note that it has not been possible to give an estimate for internal
staff time. This is not recorded or charged for explicitly by the Council
and this information cannot be easily or adequately compiled in order to
answer your query.

If you are not satisfied with the response you have received to your
request for access to information, please note that you can ask for the
matter to be reviewed. In order to have this review carried out please
put your request or complaint in writing to the Chief Executive of
Limavady Borough Council, 7 Connell Street, Limavady, BT49 OHA. He will
carry out an investigation into how the matter was dealt with by Council
Officers and he will then respond to you directly when he has completed
his investigation.

If you have any queries in relation to your request for access to
information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Elizabeth Beattie
Corporate Policy Officer

Tel: 028 777 22226
E-Mail: [email address]

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Dear Elizabeth,

Thank you for this information. I note that no costs are listed for
domain registration. Are there no costs incurred for this, or are
they included under one of the other headings (perhaps hosting)?

If it is the latter, is it possible for those to be separated out,
perhaps by reference to line items on an invoice, contracts, or
even correspondence records?

In relation to staff time, I appreciate that you do not have the
information in the form that I requested it. Does the Council hold
any information that might help someone make an estimate of costs
incurred like this?

Thanks,

Nick

1 August 2008

Dear Nick

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
COST OF COUNCIL WEBSITE

Thank you for your follow up e-mail of 1st August 2008 regarding your FOI
request.

I referred your query regarding costs for domain registration to the
Council's Finance/IT Manager (he is responsible for both sections within
the Council). He has manually checked all the invoices received in
relation to the website from the various companies identified in our
earlier response to you but can find no specific costing in relation to
domain registration within these invoices. No other contracts or
correspondence we have on file make reference to this either. We can only
assume therefore that domain registration has been included under hosting
or one of the other headings in the original information we forwarded to
you.

In relation to staff time, the Council does not keep on record any
information that would even help make an estimate of staff costs incurred
in relation to the website. We do not operate a system of time allocation
or any tracking systems for work being undertaken by staff. Any estimate
we could give would be purely hypothetical and could not be said to have
any sound basis.

I will be on leave during the following two weeks but if you have any
further queries or wish for further clarification, please do not hesitate
to contact:

Mr Gerry McCourt
Finance/IT Manager
Limavady Borough Council
7 Connell Street
Limavady
BT49 OHA

Tel: 028 777 22226
Fax: 028 777 22010
E-Mail: [email address]

Yours sincerely

Elizabeth Beattie
Corporate Policy Officer

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