Transparency data
BIS exceptions to spending controls: ICT- April to June 2014
Updated 15 September 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 |
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| BIS | Not set | Apprenticeships Exemplar - BETA | The scope of the Beta Foundations phase is to review the outcomes of the Alpha service assessment and take any appropriate action, review any changes resulting from the Agency Reform, reconfirm and extend the stakeholder engagement plan and prepare for the Beta. | £0.20 | £0.20 | 14/04/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | National Careers Service 14-15 Delivery | 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; • 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. | £1.60 | £1.60 | 08/05/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Supply Chain Transformation Tranche 1 | To achieve value for money. The SCT programme 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. The Transformation programme is being dlivered through three tranches: citizen; provider and line of business and each tranche is split into a number of lots. | £45.19 | £36.96 | 15/05/2014 |
| BIS | Technology Strategy Board | _Connect platform overspend | Retrospective approval of overspend in previous financial year. Corrective actions put in place to apply more dilligence to portfolio planning and budgetting for subsequent years. | £1.74 | £2.33 | 20/05/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Apprenticeship Applications Exemplar Beta project | 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. | £2.79 | £2.79 | 23/05/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Learning Records Service | This business case seeks approval to invest up to £2.7m(excluding VAT) to enhance the Learning Records Service (LRS) over the next two financial years of 2014-15 and 2015-16. This investment aims to enhance the products to improve the service and experience for customers operating in education and skills | £2.67 | £2.67 | 29/05/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | SCT programme Tranche 1, lots 1 (ITSM toolset) and 4b (End User Computing productivity services) | The ITSM toolset will support the SMI and service desk, and is a SaaS solution from ServiceNow The productivity services will support end user computing through services such as Microsoft SharePoint and Office365 | £1.90 | £1.90 | 02/06/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Supply Chain Transformation Tranche 3 Lots 6 & 6d | Lot 6 ? Corporate & Business Services (AMS & AD) Applications management and applications development services to maintain and build ICT infrastructure in support of the Agency?s corporate and partner facing systems and requirement for an ?ITSM? toolset to support the SMI transition. | £2.90 | £2.90 | 02/06/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Supply Chain Transformation Tranche 2 | Tranche 2 of the programme seeks to re-procure ICT services for the Agency?s Citizen facing systems, include the National Careers Services, and National Apprenticeship Services | £1.40 | £1.40 | 02/06/2014 |
| BIS | BIS | BIS Statistics Platform | New Statistics Platform for BIS | £1.65 | £1.65 | 02/06/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Interactive dashboard | To avoid impact to citizen / business facing services in line with Government priorities. The project aims to deliver a technical platform to enable the provision of interactive information products to support the reporting of FE and Skills information within the Agency and BIS. The Agency’s Performance and MI team (part of the Programme Delivery and Performance Directorate) working with Government Statistical Service within BIS will use this capability to manage and present further education (FE) and Skills data. | £1.97 | £1.97 | 04/04/2014 |
| BIS | Land Registry | DITI disaggregation | The LR requirement for a new contract providing network hardware and printer break fix for key infrastructure components was identified and use of the BIS mandated framework for hardware support approved by BIS ICT Expenditure Advisory Group on Thursday 26th June 2014. Subsequent discussions and due diligence exercises with the supplier have now confirmed the total cost for the provision of the requirement at £294,425 for a 12 month contract commencing 22nd July 2014 | £0.38 | £0.38 | 26/06/2014 |