Purpose

Approval required from the Director
of Resources to incur expenditure of £8,180K on the 2023/24
IDS Digital Scheme which includes the specialist resources
(internal and external) to commission and implement these
services.
 

Content

The Director of
Resources gave approval to incur expenditure of £8,180K on
the 2023/24 programmes,
· 
Scheme 33232/000/000.
£5,680k essential corporate ICT infrastructure
upgrades (ESP) for 2023/24.
· 
Scheme 33233/000/000.
£2,500k 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.