Software Licenses

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Dear Skills Funding Agency,

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,

Leo Wu

Freedom of Information,

Dear Leo

Thank you for your requests received on 20 April.

Firstly I should advise that the Office of the Chief Executive of Skills Funding is not a public authority specified with legal obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. However, we seek to handle requests for information in accordance with the provisions of the Act.

You have requested the following information:

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

We will respond in accordance with the provisions of the Act and on or before 19 May.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Adviser
Skills Funding Agency

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Freedom of Information,

Dear Leo

We write in response to your requests for information received by the Agency on the 20 April.

We have responded below each of your requests:

01. Do you look after your own IT or is it outsourced?
We both insource and outsource IT capability.

02. How much did you pay in last financial year for software licenses?
£4,185,057.

03. How many computers users do you have?
1383.

04. When do you need to renew the contract with Microsoft for software licenses?
Our Microsoft Select agreement will be renewed in October 2015.

05. What was the value of your last contract per year?
£43,333.

06. Do you currently measure software usage versus the number of licenses purchased?
Yes.

07. If so what is used for software usage metering?
We do not proactively meter software, measurement is reactive using Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager & Service Now.

08. Do you use a software asset management tool?
Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager & Service Now.

09. Please also provide details of IT Contracts Managers and any person(s) involved in IT Software procurement.
The information requested is personal data, this has been withheld as the Agency considers this to be exempt under section 40(2) (personal information) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Agency considers disclosure of such personal data would constitute a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (first data protection principle) where the data subject has neither consented nor a reasonable expectation that the personal data will be processed in this way.

I hope you find the information supplied is helpful and thank you for your interest in the work of the Agency.

However, if you have been dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you can complain. Details of the Agency’s complaint procedure are published on our website at:

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If you complain and remain dissatisfied with the outcome, you can seek to complain to the Information Commissioner. Details of his complaint procedure are published on his website here:

https://ico.org.uk/concerns/getting/

As previously advised, the Office of the Chief Executive of Skills Funding is not currently specified with legal obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Adviser
Skills Funding Agency

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