Decision details
IT Recurring Contracts
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
The Council holds a large number of contracts
for IT applications and other services where the cost of change is
likely to exceed any saving from re-procurement and needs to agree
an appropriate way of managing these following the end of its
strategic partnership which previously managed these
arrangements.
Decision:
The exempt appendix was noted.
DECISION
1. To approve the proposed procurement of:
a) Northgate housing, rents and benefits application support and hosting, starting from 01 April 2022 for 3 years, through a direct award or via a Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework, aligning this with the wider housing and revenues project that has recently been approved and is commencing now to gather requirements and will take a considerable time get to the tender stage, award, implementation, and transition.
b) Bell Mitel/Wavenet telephony solution starting from 01 May 2022 for 3 years, through a direct award or via the Network Services 2 Framework.
c) The renewal of 18 further recurring IT contracts each with a total contract spend below £189K for direct renewal routes or via a procurement framework as applicable.
2. To authorise the Divisional Director of IT Service to award the 20 new contracts referred to above. The total annual value of these contracts is £1.682M and their lifecycle value over next 3-5 years with extensions is £5.307M.
Action by:
INTERIM CORPORATE DIRECTOR, RESOURCES (K. BARTLE)
(Director of IT (A. Gorst)
Report author: Pam Cummins
Publication date: 10/09/2021
Date of decision: 08/09/2021
Decided at meeting: 08/09/2021 - Cabinet
Effective from: 18/09/2021
Accompanying Documents:
- IT Recurring Contracts
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