IT Cost in Tower Hamlets

Dear Mr Jacobson

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Thank you for your email dated today.

I understand your request to be regarding IT.

Your request is being considered and if the information is held you will
receive the information requested within the statutory timescale of 20
working days as defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to
the information not being exempt.

If the time taken to meet your request is likely to exceed 18 hours, we
will contact you and ask you amend your request to bring it below this
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achieved.

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any information that can be released to you.

Yours sincerely,

Jane Jones

Information Governance Administrative Officer

Legal Services

6th Floor

Mulberry Place

London E14 2BG

0207 364 4736

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Dear Sir/Madam

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 -

Your request for information has been considered under the requirements of
the Freedom of Information Act and the information is below.

Please provide the following information for the past financial year:

How much money has been spent by Tower Hamlets Borough Council for
purchasing of licences for Commercial off-the-shelf desktop software
(including but not limited to word processors, spreadsheet software,
Office"-type packages, PDF-generation software, email and calendar
software)?

For Corporate ICT

Desktop Software £379,417

Microsoft Enterprise Agreement

How much money has been spent by Tower Hamlets Borough Council for
purchasing of desktop operating systems (e.g. Mac OS, Microsoft Windows
and Linux-based operating systems) - if operating system licenses have
come bundled with purchased hardware, please list number of licenses
acquired.

Desktop Operating Systems 1,035 licences purchased
as a bundle with the hardware

Dell Leased Equipment

How much money has been spent by Tower Hamlets Borough Council for
purchasing of server operating systems (e.g. Mac OS, Microsoft Windows,
Linux-based operating systems).

Server Operating Systems £ 27,426

Microsoft Enterprise Agreement

How much money has been spent by Tower Hamlets Borough Council for
purchasing of external IT support (External, as in not provided by the
Borough's own IT staff)?

Purchase of External IT Support £ 72,000

If possible, please list the amounts above for Tower Hamlets Borough
Council as a whole as well as the amounts spent in schools for the same
licenses.

Please see attached spreadsheet

All schools are only required to report the LA in terms of Consistent
Financial Reporting which means that we can only tell you how much schools
spend against code E20 ICT Learning Resources which could be New PC's,
Licences or just printer cartridges. More detailed information is held at
each individual school.

Please present the amounts summarized and categorised appropriately
according to your available data (e.g. per vendor and/or per software
category, if available)

If budget data for the current financial year is available, please provide
this as well as data for actual spend in the previous years.

2007/8 details will not be available for about 3 weeks

If you have any queries please get in touch with me to discuss them. You
might like to know that the Council's website [1]www.towerhamlets.gov.uk
contains a section on the Freedom of Information Act that lists other
publications readily available from the Council under its Publication
Scheme.

Yours sincerely,

Jane Jones

Information Governance Administrative Officer

Legal Services

6th Floor

Mulberry Place

London E14 2BG

0207 364 4736

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the copyright will be owned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The
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Tower Hamlets, details of the conditions of re-use can be found on our
website at [3]www.towerhamlets.gov.uk.

For information where the copyright is owned by another person or
organization, you must apply to the copyright holder to obtain their
permission.

If you unhappy with this response or wish to complain about any aspect of
the handling of this request please write to:

Corporate Complaints Unit

Tower Hamlets Town Hall

Mulberry Place

5 Clove Crescent

London E14 2BG

If you are subsequently not satisfied with the Council's response to your
complaint you have a right of appeal to the independent Information
Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545 700

[4]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Further information about the operation of the act is available from the
council's website [5]www.towerhamlets.gov.uk and the information leaflet
in public reception areas in Council buildings.

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