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Council and councillors

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