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Departmental ICT

Volume 488: debated on Friday 6 March 2009

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 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. (251140)

The following table provides the planned and actual costs and delivery dates for Treasury IT projects costing over £50,000 since 2007. Prior to that, this information was not collected centrally. None of these projects were contracted-out.

IT project

Approved budget (£000)

Actual costs (£000)

Planned delivery

Actual delivery

Common Infrastructure Management Tools

462

162

November 2008

November 2008

Oasis Desktop Refresh

154

150

June 2008

May 2008

OGC Desktop Refresh

54

0

January 2008

May 2008

OGC Laptop Refresh

138

273

August 2008

November 2008

OGC Blackberry

52

52

November 2008

November 2008

Restricted Blackberry Rollout

86

81

June 2008

August 2008

Safedial and Confidential Laptop

850

741

June 2008

August 2008

Switch Replacement services.

785

675

August 2008

November 2008

Group Networks

629

580

March 2008

October 2008

Managed Printers

230

76

September 2007

May 2008