The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has currently a very wide range of IT enabled projects, the scale cost, time scales and complexity of these projects vary enormously. However those projects and groups of projects marshalled together around a significant business change cost and complexity are defined as Programmes. The information requested by the hon. Member is provided in the following table:
Start date Original planned completion date Expected completion date Originally planned costs (£million) Estimated costs (£million) FCO Future Firecrest (AIM) February 2005 February 2012 February 2012 332.0 347 1 FCONet 3 March 2006 June 2007 October 2007 3.5 3.5 EDRM (eRccords/iRecords) September 2004 March 2010 March 2010 26.5 24.7 FCO Web Platform July 2005 November 2008 November 2008 13.5 13.5 Global Collaboration October 2005 March 2008 March 2008 3.6 36 Prism1 January 2002 January 2009 January 2010 81.9 99.9 FTN(FCO Telecommunications Network) May 2000 May 20 10 May 20 10 180.0 240.0 UKvisas Biometrics May 2005 December 2007 December 2007 101.5 121.7 Biometric Passports Programme (BRIT) May 2004 October 2006 October 2006 4.0 4.0 Secondary Biometrics (yet to be scoped and fully costed) October 2006 October 2010 2– 2– 2– Agencies (FCO Services , Wilton Park) None 1 Implementation of the Prism system was completed in May 2006, two months later than originally planned, and the managed service contract with the contractor to run the system was extended from 2009 to 20 10. 2 To be determined.