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Departmental ICT

Volume 487: debated on Monday 9 February 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the (a) original expected cost, (b) original expected delivery date, (c) actual cost incurred and (d) actual delivery date was of each ICT project undertaken and completed by his Department in each year since 1997; who the contractors for each project were; what the (i) initial estimated and (ii) outturn payment to each contractor was; and if he will make a statement. (251143)

The majority of ICT projects are relatively small and are developed in-house with minimum cost. To compile information to support all projects would be at disproportionate cost. Therefore the information contained in the following table relates only to projects costing in excess of £1 million.

1998

1999

1999

2001

2002

2003

2003

2008

Project

Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Londonderry

OASIS Y2K Refresh

COMPASS

PRISM

CAUSEWAY

DPP Infrastructure

FLAX

PRISM, Technical Refresh

Purpose

Implementation of IT systems to support the work of the inquiry

To upgrade NIO departmental infrastructure and make it Y2K compliant

To provide an e-human resources system for the Northern Ireland Prison Service

To provide a prisoner record system for the Northern Ireland Prison Service

A joint enterprise by criminal justice organisations in Northern Ireland to share information electronically

To implement a modern ICT infrastructure for the DPP NI

Replace NIO IT infrastructure, provide internet and intranet and meet electronic document and records management targets

Refresh of the software and architecture

Original expected cost (£ million excluding VAT)

n/k

2.1

4.6

13.61

42.7

1.2

8.5

1.3

Original expected delivery date

n/k

December 1999

April 2002

December 2005

December 2006

October 2003

December 2004

March 2010

Actual cost incurred (£ million excluding VAT)

33

2.2

5

4.66

33 to date

1.2

8.5

Actual delivery date

1998 to date

December 1999

September 2003

September 2005 to March 2008

Ongoing

October 2003

December 2004

2008-ongoing

Contractors

Bull Information Systems, International Computers Capital Computers, Diagonal Solutions, Deloittes, Fujitsu

HP

Pecaso Accenture

Sopra

Fujitsu

BT

BT

Sopra and further contracts to be awarded

Initial estimated payment to contractors (£ million)

n/k

2.1

3

3.61

42.7

8.5

1.3

Outturn payment to contractors (£ million)

33

2.2

3.4

4.66

22 to date

n/k

8.5

1 The PRISM costs include the capital and recurring costs of the project and cover the period up to the completion of implementation in March 2008. The costs also include the provision of a range of additional functionality including biometric access controls.