Transparency data
BIS exceptions to spending controls: information and communications technology (ICT) - April to June 2015
Updated 5 October 2015
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| Not set | Department | Organisation Name | Project name | Basis for expenditure approval | Total Value requested (£) | Total Value Approved (£) | Date of approval |
| Not set | BIS | UK Intellectual Property Office | Expansion of IDA & View My Cases | There are three workstreams within the scope of this project and they have all been delivered using the Scrum method of agile working. | 316,000 | 316,000 | 08/04/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Met Office | Met Office Mobile App (beta and live) | The Met Office has completed the Discovery Phase and developed an Alpha which is currently being tested with users and refined. The Met Office now seeks approval to go to Beta and Live. | 250,000 | 250,000 | 24/06/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Innovate UK | Improving Our Online Processes (CR&D Alpha extension) | Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D) is Innovate UK?s primary grant service and has been selected as the first service to be redesigned as 100% digital by default and compliant to the GDS service standard. | 201,000 | 201,000 | 19/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Insolvency Service | Online Debt Solutions | Insolvency Service are aiming to deliver a new online service which: - Enables people in unmanageable debt to apply for debt relief online. - The application will be easy to find, easy to access, easy to complete and easy to submit. -Information captured will be uploaded efficiently into Insolvency Service systems and on-ward delivery will be digital by default. | 2,522,000 | 2,522,000 | 18/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | BIS | Hermes II Replacement | To introduce a new integrated digital service that includes Case Tracking, Document and Evidence Management | 1,456,000 | 1,456,000 | 22/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Employer Routed Funding (ERF) alpha | The ERF Alpha phase is the next phase of the Employer Routed Funding project, the key aims of which are to : • Increase the ability for employers to manage their funding and increase apprenticeship take up by moving to an employer ownership model, this will drive up the quality of provision and give employers more choice of provider and provision; • Address employer user needs of employers; • Meet the digital by default agenda for employers and drive efficiencies through digital by default services and to build the digital capabilities of the SFA. Discovery (23Feb-17Apr15) identified employer user needs & user journeys was approved at £240k (HMG1819). This Alpha phase (approximately 3 months) focusses on testing the apprenticeship standards search and employer funding calculator with a defined and small set of employers. | 363,980 | 363,980 | 01/06/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Student Loans Company | Oracle Licensing Maintenance & Support | The business case seeks approval for the maintenance and support of the Student Loans Company?s (SLC) Oracle Estate. The scope of the expenditure is to provide maintenance and support on SLC's suite of Oracle products. | 3,195,000 | 1,305,000 | 15/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Medical Research Council (MRC) | MRC IT contract extension and service development | The MRC is seeking to extend its current CGI contract for the provision of desktop services, networking and communications to MRC?s Head Office environment in Swindon and London. This is to provide continued service whilst MRC works with its sister Research Councils on proposals for a joint solution. The current end date for the contract is July 2015. | 2,343,000 | 2,343,000 | 28/04/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) | Extending Maintenance and Support of Acas Phoenix System | PHOENIX is the operational workflow and case management system for Individual Conciliation, Acas largest statutory area of work. It has a long and complex history, originally being built jointly with another department. | 1,671,000 | 1,671,000 | 27/04/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | HM Land Registry | PC Refresh | Land Registry is seeking to refresh the majority of their legacy PC estate | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 15/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Provider Digital Services | The Programme sets out the need to create and then evolve the Provider Digital Service. In this context, the terms ?provider? means colleges and training organisations (the users of the service) and ?digital service? means skills funding transactions. | 586,000 | 586,000 | 11/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Skills Funding Agency | WAN Services | The current MCTF contract for the SFA?s existing WAN Services expires on the 31st December 2015. The approach proposed is to procure a replacement service with the contract award being no later than 20th July 2015 as the start the transition to the new service must commence no later than the 20th July 2015 to allow 90 days to order the required replacement network circuits | 3,817,000 | 3,817,000 | 27/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Student Loans Company | Disaster Recovery & Data Centre Consolidation | The objective of the programme is to build strategic Production and DR data centre capability to ensure that key services are maintained in the event of a production service incident. | 13,407,000 | 13,407,000 | 18/06/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Skills Funding Agency | Funding & Contracting Transformation | The FCT programme covers 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. Approval submission request was for all programme costs through to the end of the FY15/16 including 3 months of operations Jan to Mar'16. | 3,810,695 | 3,810,695 | 22/06/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | UKSBS | Oracle 12.1.3 | Not set | 220,000 | 220,000 | 21/04/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | UKSBS | Property Assets Management Data Capture & management | Not set | 510,000 | 510,000 | 05/05/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Skills Funding Agency | SCT Tranche 2 : LRS additional transition costs | This project is for the SFA ‘Learning Records Service’ (LRS) and forms part of Tranche 2 of the SCT programme. An FBC was for hosting for the Agency’s citizen services was approved in March 2014. A contract was awarded to a hosting provider for citizen services excluding LRS. This request sought approval for transitioning LRS. Original request for £3.39m inc vat was Amended to the maintenance of our existing contract whilst awaiting a CO Government wide solution. | 3,390,000 | 3,390,000 | 01/04/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Land Registry | Register View and Charges Digital Services beta extension | Not set | 800,000 | 800,000 | 30/06/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Companies House | Extractives reporting discovery & alpha | Not set | 370,000 | 370,000 | 30/06/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Intellectual Property Office | Change of Credit/Debit card Payment Provider Service | Not set | 220,000 | 220,000 | 16/06/2015 |
| Not set | BIS | Land Registry | Bankruptcy Service (discovery & alpha) | Not set | 610,000 | 610,000 | 30/06/2015 |