Purpose

Approval required from the
Director of Strategy & Resources to incur
expenditure of £10,665k on the 2024/25 IDS Digital Scheme
which includes the specialist resources (internal and external) to
commission and implement these services.
 

Content

The Director Strategy and
Resources has given approval to incur capital expenditure of
£10,665k as follows:
 
· 
Scheme 33407/000/000. £5,415k essential corporate ICT infrastructure upgrades
(ESP) for 2024/25.
· 
Scheme 33374/000/000. £5,250k consisting of essential work required to the
Council’s key business applications to ensure they are up to
date and compliant and to fund Digital Efficiencies. This includes
investments to ensure compliancy for GDPR and PSN.  This significant investment in the Cyber agenda
will help ensure that the ongoing threat to our information and
systems is minimised. Expenditure will allow the council to retire
and replace end of life and non-compliant critical corporate
reporting capabilities. It will also allow the council to have a
planned programme of application consolidation, refresh and
retirement which will afford the potential for financial savings in
hardware, software, support and maintenance costs and will keep the
estate compliant.
 
This expenditure includes the
engagement of specialist internal and external resources and the
associated project management to implement this scheme.