Transparency data
BIS exceptions to spending controls: ICT - October to December 2013
Updated 28 February 2014
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| Department | Organisation Name | Project name | Basis for expenditure approval | Total Value requested (£M) | Total Value Approved (£M) | Date of approval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIS | BIS core | FLITE end user devices | Not set | 3.4 | 3.4 | 10/31/2013 |
| BIS | BIS core | FLITE office productivity services | Not set | 4.1 | 4.1 | 5/12/2013 |
| BIS | BIS core | Hermes II replacement | Not set | 0.88 | 0.875 | 12/19/2013 |
| BIS | CCFE | Extension to IT services contract | To enable transition to shared services in accordance with project timelines | 0.49 | 0.49 | 12/19/2013 |
| BIS | Insolvency | Redundancy payments exemplar | Insolvency Business Case referred by BIS to Cabinet Office and approved by GDS (Spend Approval Board) as suitable for an Exemplar project | 1.3 | 1.3 | 11/14/2013 |
| BIS | Insolvency | Redundancy payments recalculation | Approved by Cabinet Office on 10/12/13 with no conditions. | 0.22 | 0.22 | 10/12/2013 |
| BIS | Land Registry | Distributed IT Infrastructure | The Land Registry Distributed IT Infrastructure (DITI) service is currently delivered through a commercial contract with a prime supplier (Steria). Land Registry have instigated a competitive procurement to secure the provision of appropriately disaggregated distributed IT infrastructure and support services using recommended frameworks as aligned with Government ICT strategy. | 1.27 | 1.27 | 5/12/2013 |
| BIS | NERC | Environmental Workbench | The Environmental Research Workbench will enable NERC scientists to easily exploit the underpinning JASMIN infrastructure, providing an intuitive, user-friendly interface and a range of tools and services that will help them analyse large and heterogeneous environmental datasets and accelerate science discovery. The Workbench will overcome a major hurdle for the many scientists who lack the technical knowledge to directly exploit high performance and cloud computing facilities. | 1 | 1 | 5/11/2013 |
| BIS | RCUK | JASMIN2 | Not set | 7 | 7 | 3/10/2013 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | DCFT interface re-enablement | To avoid impact to citizen / business facing services in line with Government priorities. To enable the link between data and contracting systems in order for payments to be made to providers. | 0.83 | 0.833 | 12/19/2013 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Funding & Contracting transformation (FCT) programme | To achieve value for money. The programme has been mobilised to manage the work of moving the Skills Funding Agency to new services and systems for funding and contracting to replace the existing legacy systems. This will create a public facing mission critical system that is fit for purpose and in line with the Government Digital Strategy. | 6.9 | 6.898 | 12/23/2013 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | ID Assurance maintenance release | To avoid impact to citizen / business facing services in line with Government priorities. The ID Assurance service allows citizens to register through an automated and secure single sign on access system. This service verifies that a learner identity is real and authenticates the learner as having that identity before linking the identity to the unique learner number (ULN) as a core component for the delivery of on-line education sector services. | 0.89 | 0.89 | 10/24/2013 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | National Apprenticeship Service exemplar (ICT aspects) | The exemplar project is one of the selected projects (within BIS) using agile development to improve the digital services that facilitates the Apprenticeships marketplace and allows the project to deliver the exemplar vision. | 0.52 | 0.522 | 12/19/2013 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | National Careers Service National Digital Service | To avoid impact to citizen / business facing services in line with Government priorities. The Programme’s objectives are to: • Improve the quality of careers information, advice and guidance; • Increase the number of people actively managing their own careers. The new service delivery and funding model which will be delivered by the programme will: • enable the National Careers Service to contribute more effectively to the Government’s agenda for jobs, growth and localism; • align with the agendas of ‘Digital by Default’, whereby services will be delivered using digital channels where possible; • enable citizen empowerment, whereby citizens have sight and control over the data held about them; • align with the increased government focus on achieving clear customer outcomes. The NCS Digital platform is critical to providing a coherent national service. | 0.6 | 0.6 | 10/24/2013 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Supply Chain Transformation – tranche 1 FBC | To achieve value for money. The SCT programme is addressing the expiry of the Agency’s current ICT services contracts and aims to move the ICT services towards a cloud compliant, multi-vendor service delivery model in order to lower total cost of ownership and achieve compliance with the Government ICT strategy. | 8.8 | 8.8 | 12/23/2013 |
| BIS | STFC | Energy Efficent Computing Centre | Establish the Energy Efficienct Computing Centre as per the Autumn Statement in 2012. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne) visited Daresbury on February 1, 2013 and announced a £19M capital investment to finance research into energy efficient computing. “to firmly establish the UK as the world leader in energy efficient supercomputer software development to meet big data challenges.” | 17 | 17 | 12/20/2013 |
| BIS | STFC | National Service for Computational Chemistry Software hardware upgrade | Funding for this purchase was allocated in 2010 as part of a peer reviewed science grant application approved by EPSRC. EPSRC funds are from existing allocations via RCUK. | 0.3 | 0.3 | 12/19/2013 |
| BIS | Student Loans Company | a/y 2014-15 HE delivery | To enable SLC to launch its 14/15 Academic Year programme. | 1.39 | 1.387 | 11/14/2013 |