Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Resources seeking approval for the implementation of Microsoft 365.

DECISION MADE: (CAB 19/20 25460)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Resources, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  Agrees to contract with Microsoft for Phase 1 of the Microsoft 365 roll-out at a maximum cost of the amount specified in Appendix 1.

(ii)  Delegates to the Service Director for Digital and Business Operations, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Resources and the Service Director for Finance and Commercialisation, to award the contract and implement the project.

(iii)  Delegates to the Service Director for Digital and Business Operations to negotiate reductions in the scope of the work required from Microsoft in order to reduce the total cost of the project.

(iv)  Delegates to the Service Director for Digital and Business Operations to recruit or commission additional temporary IT capacity at a maximum cost of £80,000.

(v)  Approves the addition and spend of the amount defined in Appendix 1 in 2019/20 within the Resources portfolio in the capital programme.