ICT Implementation

Dear Mr Hellard

The City of London acknowledges receipt of your request.

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Following receipt of your request for information of 14 January 2010 and
our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows.

1. Who are the incumbent suppliers of the "basic connectivity"
for your Wide Area Network Services? Are any contracts due for
renewal in the next six months? BT, Colt and Claranet currently
have contracts to supply services. Most of the contracts were
re-tendered in November 2009 and we are in the process of notifying
the winning company/companies at the moment.

No further contracts for installing WAN links are due in the next six
months.
2. How many sites on your network require high speed (greater
than 1Gig) connections? None.
3. Do you integrate (or manage) your own network or do you
use a Systems Integrator or Outsourcing company for your network or ICT
services? If so, please specify who and when the contract expires. We
manage our own network.

4. How many Data Centres do you use and are they on council
premises or third party premises? If third party please specify the
company and when the contract expires.

Two data centres. One is our own, the other is provided by IBM.
The contract with IBM includes other services as well and is due for
renewal in January 2011.
5. Do you use "Co-location" Services? If yes who is the
supplier and when do the contracts need to be renewed?

Our Internet presence is hosted by Kingston Communications. The
current contract expires in May 2011.

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Dear Mr Hellard

I understand that a response has been sent to you today.

Yours sincerely

City of London
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