Written answers
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Department of Social Protection
Departmental Expenditure
8:00 pm
Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 188: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the five highest value contracts entered into or authorised by her Department in 2008 for capital spending; the five highest value contracts entered into or authorised for current spending; the companies or bodies awarded the contracts; the value of the contracts; and the nature of the work. [6401/09]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Department has a major programme of business, organisational and technological change underway to enable it to modernise the services that it provides to its customers. Maximising the potential of information technology is a significant aspect of this change programme and external firms are used to assist the Department in undertaking this work.
The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables appended to this reply.
The Deputy may also wish to note that the contract for the provision of payment services to social welfare customers by An Post was renewed in December 2008 for a further 5 years. The Department intends to advertise its plans to formalise the current arrangements with An Post for the 5 year period up to 31 December 2013 and its plans to undertake a procurement process in the coming years, in accordance with European law, for the future provision of payment delivery services. The contract will be reviewed annually during this period. It is estimated that the cost of the service being provided by An Post will amount to €54m. in 2009.
| Current Spending | ||
| Company | Nature of Contract | Overall Value |
| € | ||
| Bearing Point | Support and Maintenance of Service Delivery Model production system: This is a 3 year contract which commenced in 2008 for external technical support and maintenance of the Business Object Model (new software platform) implementation. It also covers budget-related enhancements. | 12,000,000 |
| Bearing Point | Medical Review and Case Management project: This project, which commenced in 2008, will implement new medical and administrative processes and the underlying technology enhancements to the Business Object Model required to support these new processes. | 4,148,690 |
| Hewlett Packard (Ireland) Ltd. | Office Systems Modernisation project: This project, which commenced in 2008, will replace the Department's 20 year old office systems with the implementation of a replacement set of document preparation, management, mailing and publishing products (i.e. roll-out to 4,500 staff over a period of 2 years). | 2,736,312 |
| Hewlett Packard (Ireland) Ltd. | Customer Object Development project: This project, which commenced in 2008, aims to migrate the Department's Central Records System (i.e. its client database) to a modern platform, to provide for new registration processes and to allow for further development. | 2,394,452 |
| Hewlett Packard (Ireland) Ltd. | Managed Service Provision for General Register Office IT system: This 3 year contract, which was awarded in 2008, is for the provision of managed services for the hosting and management of system hardware for the operation of the General Register Office's Civil Registration System. | 2,184,000 |
| Capital Spending | ||
| Company | Nature of Contract | Overall Value |
| € | ||
| Cable and Wireless (Ireland) Ltd | Purchase of telecommunications equipment and licences: This is a 2 year "draw down" contract which commenced in 2008. €855,000 was spent during 2008 and further expenditure may be incurred under this contract during 2009, if the need arises. | 855,000 (to date) |
| Redstone Technology | Purchase of computer hardware (servers) mainly for the Department's Intranet, Microsoft Exchange E-mail infrastructure and for general hardware infrastructural upgrades. | 501,632 |
| Cable and Wireless (Ireland) Ltd. | Purchase of telecommunications hardware upgrades for Private Branch Exchange (PBX) systems: This contract was awarded in 2008, €275,000 spent in 2008 and the balance being spent in 2009. | 400,000 |
| Hewlett Packard (Ireland) Ltd. | Purchase of Personal Computers (PCs) for roll-out to the Department's nationwide office network: This is an 18-month "draw down" contract which commenced in 2008. €277,289 was spent during 2008 and further expenditure may be incurred under this contract during 2009, if the need arises. | 277,289 (to date) |
| BT | Purchase of Telecommunication Network Switches to provide additional capacity on the Department's telecommunications network. | 106,726 |
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