Software license

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Dear Airedale NHS Foundation Trust,

I would like to ask

Q1. Do you look after your own IT or is it outsourced?
Q2. How much did you pay in last financial year for software licenses?
Q3. How many computers users do you have?
Q4. When do you need to renew the contract with Microsoft for software licenses? What was the value of your last contract per year?
Q5. Do you currently measure software usage versus the number of licenses purchased? If so what is used for software usage metering?
Q6. Do you use a software asset management tool?
Q7. Please also provide details of IT Contracts Managers and any person(s) involved in IT Software procurement.

Yours faithfully,

Phil Hames

Dear Mr Hames

Thank you for your request for information from Airedale NHS Foundation Trust which was received on 27 March 2015. Your request has been given the Reference Number 1516. We will now proceed to process the request.

Please note that under the Freedom of Information Act, some information can be subject to exemptions, which means that the Trust does not have to provide the information requested. Some exemptions are “absolute” such as personal information and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption, outweighs that of providing the information.

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Please contact me, quoting the Reference Number above, with any questions you might have about your request.

With kind regards

Tim Rycroft

Head of IT and Information Governance, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
IT Business Centre, Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 6TD
Tel: 01535 295412 (direct) 01535 292738 (FOI) Email: [Airedale NHS Foundation Trust request email]

Sent on behalf of Tim Rycroft by Deborah Cocker, Freedom of Information Asst. (my usual working pattern is Mon-Thur)

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Dear FOI,

I am looking forward your answer that by law should normally have
been responded promptly and by 27 April 2015 by the authority.
Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Phil Hames

Dear Mr Hames
I am very sorry that we have exceeded the deadline for our response to your FOI request. Please be assured we are doing all we can to answer all the requests we receive as promptly as possible.

I will make further enquiries today and try to expedite the identification and retrieval of the data you have requested.

With kind regards

Deborah Cocker
Freedom of Information, IT Business Centre, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, KEIGHLEY BD20 6TD
Tel. 01535 292738 (direct) Email [email address]

My usual working pattern is Mon-Thurs

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Dear FOI,

The response to your request is long overdue, by law, under all circumstances, you should have responded by now

Yours sincerely,

Phil Hames

Deborah Cocker,

Dear Mr Hames
 
Further to your application to access information under the Freedom of
Information Act (Our Ref. 1516) please find our response below.  Please
accept my sincere apologies for our late reply. 
 
Q1. Do you look after your own IT or is it outsourced? -  IM&T is in
house.
Q2. How much did you pay in last financial year for software licenses? - 
£454,323
Q3. How many computers users do you have?  - 3000
Q4. When do you need to renew the contract with Microsoft for software
licenses? What was the value of your last contract per year? The Trust
previous Microsoft contract was via the National Enterprise Framework, so
no initial cost the Trust. -  The Trust currently uses the Microsoft
select agreement for any additional ad-hoc purchasing.
Q5. Do you currently measure software usage versus the number of licenses
purchased? If so what is used for software usage metering? -  We do not
monitor software usage.
Q6. Do you use a software asset management tool?  -No
Q7. Please also provide details of IT Contracts Managers and any person(s)
involved in IT Software procurement. -  Robert Langthorne Senior Contracts
Manager (ANHST Supplies Department)
 
Please take particular note that although we have provided the names and
contact details you have requested, this does not mean that the
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unsolicited marketing material. According to the Privacy and Electronic
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or individual are prohibited from conducting unsolicited direct marketing
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We trust you find our response helpful.  If you feel we are not complying
with our publication scheme, you feel your request has not been properly
handled, or you are dissatisfied, you can write to Bridget Fletcher, Chief
Executive at the address below to request a review.  You also have the
right to complain to the Information Commissioner under section 50 of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 if you are dissatisfied with the outcome
of that review.
 
We are continually working to improve our Freedom of Information service
and we will shortly send you a brief, anonymous, on line feedback form. 
We would be very grateful if you could take a few moments to complete and
submit this.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Tim Rycroft
 
Head of IT and Information Governance, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
IT Business Centre, Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, Keighley, West
Yorkshire BD20 6TD
Tel: 01535 295412 (direct) 01535 292738 (FOI) Email: [Airedale NHS Foundation Trust request email]
 
Sent on behalf of Tim Rycroft by Deborah Cocker, Freedom of Information
Assistant
My usual working pattern is Mon - Thurs
 
 
 

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