Decision details
Purchase of IT hardware to modernise and provide a reduction in ongoing revenue costs.
Decision Maker: Strategic Director for Resources
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To agree the purchase of services from the IT
Capital Program 20/21.
The Council has a servers, disk storage and networks that provide
applications to end users. Much of this infrastructure is over 5
years old and needs refreshing and we have established that we can
purchase one simple solution to provide this central
solution.
This will modernise the Council’s IT but also will allow our
revenue costs to reduce as we will not pay as much in maintenance
of hardware and there are opportunities to reduce or remove
software licenses. In addition this new equipment will resovle a
potential Microsoft Licence problem.
It is proposed to invest no more than £33,000 in delivering
this solution.
Decision:
Cabinet authorised the Director for Resources
to allocate the IT capital allocation of £150,000 this
decision seek to draw down from this capital fund.
Alternative options considered:
None - If we did not renew this hardware then we do face a high
risk of hardware failing and no opportunity to reduce revenue
costs.
Publication date: 12/05/2021
Date of decision: 19/03/2021