The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills IT infrastructure systems are provided via long standing agreements with Fujitsu Services and cover desktop services, web infrastructure services and in some cases other business applications, which are charged for as part of the overall, bundled, service charge.
In the last five years the following systems have, however, been developed from scratch and the details requested are provided:
Flexible Computing
Reason for development: Provision of secure remote access services via Blackberries and mobile laptops
Development costs: £4.9 million
Lynx
Reason for development: Provision of a correspondence handling system
Development cost: £1.9 million
MATRIX 2
Reason for development: Upgrade to the Department's existing electronic document management system, (itself over five years old)
Development cost: £104,000
SPIRE
Reason for development: Provision of a range of electronic export control services
Development cost: £2.6 million
In all cases all systems were fully implemented and remain fully operational.