Transparency data
BIS exceptions to spending controls: information and communications technology (ICT) - July to September 2014
Updated 5 December 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 | ACAS | WAN procurement | Not set | £1.90 | £1.90 | 24/07/2014 |
| BIS | CCFE | SAP contract extension | Extension of the SAP service for HR, finance and procurement administration until May 2016 to facilitate the transition to a new ERP solution under procurement | £0.43 | £0.43 | 25/09/2014 |
| BIS | Companies House | Companies House Technology & Digital Spend FY 14/15 | Approval for their first tranche of technology spending according to their 5 year programme of IT transformation. | £2.30 | £2.30 | 19/09/2014 |
| BIS | HEFCE | Relocation Of Bristol Office | A major upgrade of HEFCE's ICT services to support a move to a new and smaller office. Flexible working facilitated by the changes underpins the savings from the reduced office footprint. | £0.73 | £0.73 | 21/08/2014 |
| BIS | IPO | Transformational Change Portfolio "TRIPOD" | Approval to undertake the Alpha stage of a project to implement a new Apply for a Design Digital Service using software from the European Trademark and Design Office | £0.62 | £0.62 | 11/08/2014 |
| BIS | Land Registry | Land Registry "Digitial by Default" Programme "Alpha 1" | Exemplar programme alpha phase | £1.20 | £1.20 | 05/08/2014 |
| BIS | Medical Research Council | CBSU storage | Network data storage represents a crucial piece of infrastructure supporting virtually all of the scientific work carried out at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Our current storage system is reaching 90% capacity, and at present growth rates will be full before the end of the year. The aim of the current project is to acquire enough new network storage capacity to hold 1.5 petabytes (PB) of data on our primary site, and to replicate this data to our disaster recovery site. This will allow us to meet the ongoing data storage needs of the scientific staff, and also to meet our requirement for long term data retention. | £0.35 | £0.35 | 25/09/2014 |
| BIS | Met Office | Content Delivery Network refresh | Not set | £3.00 | £3.00 | 22/07/2014 |
| BIS | UKAEA | Multi Functional Devices | Provision of MFD's approval was retrospectively given as UKSBS frameworks were not available at time of placement in 2013 & the agreement has no provision for early exit. UKAEA misunderstood the GPS category mapping for MFD’s as ‘Office Solutions’ not ICT resulting in non reporting | £0.53 | £0.53 | 21/08/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | National Careers Service Data Platform | The data platform is a key infrastructure to support the sharing of customer data across the service providers to enable an integrated user journey across multiple channels (including digital) and multiple service providers. Approval was granted for 2014-15 financial year with a request to return for further approval for subsequent years. | £7.49 | £4.10 | 11/08/2014 |
| BIS | Student Loans Company | AY15/16 HE Full Time Project | SLC applies changes to its systems on an annual basis to implement mandatory policy and maintain compliance with current legislation. | £1.83 | £1.83 | 22/07/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Supply Chain Transformation tranche 2 - Lot 7 LRS | Requesting approval for transition of hosting for the Learning Records Service. Request includes £2.9m running costs. | £3.30 | £3.30 | 11/09/2014 |
| BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Funding & Contracting Transformation Beta | SFA seeking to undertake the Private Beta phase of the programme in order to build a fully working prototype which we will test with users. The requested value was reduced to £3.371 during the approval process to reflect changes in the timescale for Beta. | £4.03 | £3.37 | 24/09/2014 |
| BIS | STFC | SCARF High Performance Computing upgrade | Expansion of STFC HPC cluster to replace old equipment and meet increasing demand | £0.40 | £0.40 | 25/09/2014 |
| BIS | Not set | Hermes II replacement | To replace the current Legal A case tracking system with a service that will also include all information and evidence that is relevant to an investigation and enable electronic presentation of cases to court and defence lawyers in line with Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and MoJ standards 'Digital to the Courtroom Door'. | redacted | redacted | 21/08/2014 |