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

Hi Nick

Thank you for your request.

Just to clarify a few points.

I don't hold the information in exactly the format you have requested
but as far as possible I will try to provide you with the details you
have requested.

Regards,

Pauline

Pauline McLaughlin
Corporate Project Officer

Ballymoney Borough Council
Riada House
14 Charles Street
BALLYMONEY
BT53 6DZ

Tel 028 2766 0243
Fax 028 2766 3852
www.ballymoney.gov.uk

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Hi Pauline,

Thanks for the response. If there's an alternative format that
would give me most of the information in an easier manner for you,
go ahead with that, and I can always come back with any follow-up
questions.

Thanks,

Nick

Nick

Our ref: FOI 07/08/67

Attached spend on website since its creation in 2003.

Costs for internal staff time £12,950 per annum. 3 members of staff involved:
Head of Corporate & Development Services
Corporate Project Officer
Administrative Assistant

If you have any queries on any of this information please get in touch.

Regards,

Pauline

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Hi Pauline,

Your ref: FOI 07/08/67

Thanks for this information.

A few follow-ons:

1) This doesn't seem to include details of to whom these invoices
were paid. Was this just an oversight, or have you deliberately
withheld this information?

2) There is no mention of charges for domain registration. Is this
included in the costs for "hosting", or some other item? If so, are
you able to break that out separately - perhaps from an invoice
line item, or a contract, or correspondence with the supplier?

3) For the last two years there has been a substantial "support"
charge that wasn't applied in previous years. Can you provide more
information on what is included in this, and why it is new?

Thanks,

Nick

Hi Nick

Apologies.

Item 1 - yes, this was an oversight! The company all invoices have been paid to is Worldsites, 10 Ballyversal Road, Coleraine, BT52 2ND.

Item 2 - we pay another company for domain registration - Corpex Limited
19/12/2005 Ukerna Domain Name Renewal for Ballymoney.gov.uk 25/10/2005 - 24/10/2007 £60 + £10.50 VAT

18/07/2007 Ukerna Domain Name Renewal for Ballymoney.gov.uk 25/10/2007 - 24/10/2009 £60 + £10.50 VAT

Item 3 - the new support charge is because as the website has developed we identified a need to have the company do regular updating and maintenance on the site that we do not have the technical ability/expertise to do in house. We are provided with a monthly summary of work done under support package.

If you have further queries please contact me directly on [email address]

Regards,

Pauline

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