Written answers
Tuesday, 22 November 2005
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Computerisation Programme
10:00 pm
Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 484: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the information technology companies or other consultants who are presently engaged in connection with the operation of the PULSE system; the details of the contracts involved, their duration and the estimated monthly payments involved. [35290/05]
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.
| Company Name | Contract Details | Average Monthly Payment |
| â'¬ | ||
| Computer Associates | *The upgrade and maintenance of PULSE workstations and servers. | 68,300 |
| Maintenance Team (Accenture) | *Project to maintain and stabilise PULSE system — commenced March 2005. This team is working on PULSE stabilisation and maintenance, GNIB maintenance, Document Management System, Castlebar data entry and quality assurance project and Thurles decentralisation project. Work is carried out as extension of GNIB project. | 500,000 |
| Fujitsu | Maintenance of database servers and preparation of FCPS to a state of readiness for integration with PULSE. Maintenance will expire by April 2006. | 117,000 |
| Vantage Technology Group | *Software/Hardware Maintenance on PULSE system and other niche systems. | 303,300 |
| Microsoft Ireland | *Support for developers for migration process and implementation of additional technologies. | 14,400 |
| Oracle | *Provision of technical services to advise on configuration and architectural platform for PULSE for performance testing, backup and recovery. | 6,455 |
| Quest Software | PULSE software maintenance. | 9,340 |
The costs detailed relate in some instances to the overall support of the Garda IT systems, PULSE being one of the major systems supported. The Garda authorities plan to consolidate their support arrangements going forward and to this end propose to issue a tender to the market shortly to put in place a single support arrangement to cover the areas asterisked in the table.
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