ICT Project - Verbal Update from Steve Jorden
Minutes:
The Head of Worcestershire Regulatory Services (WRS) provided the Committee with a verbal update on the ICT Project. Members were informed that the IT contract with IDOX had been signed. The Head of WRS considered the contract to be advantageous to WRS and that it would work well for IDOX. The next phase would be to fill in the detail on the IT Project Plan and align resources. Staff from WRS would work on the IT Project so that WRS staff had ownership of the IT system, this would involve ‘backfilling’ where needed, a budget had been allocated for ‘backfilling’. The detailed IT Project Plan would be presented by the ICT Project Manager to a future meeting of the Joint Committee. Members were further informed that penalty clauses had been built into the contract with IDOX to ensure delivery of the system as specified and that deadlines were met.
Following further discussion the Head of WRS responded to Members’ questions with regard to:
Ø The host authority for the ICT system
Ø The type of ICT system supplied, whether bespoke or an off the shelf system.
Ø Ownership of the Licence. Could IDOX sell the system as a marketable product?