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‘Five Council’ Proposal Public Consultation

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ICT FOI Answers

Staff

  • The total number of IT staff employed by the organisation:
    • 4
  • Contact details for the IT senior management team including CIO, IT Director, Head of IT and Infrastructure Architects if applicable:

Castle Point outsource to ABS who provide Network, Server and Desktop support. This contract runs to from April 2021 for 5 years.

 

Tender process

Castle Point will go to tender on all major projects, these follow the OJEU framework. Please register at www.tendersdirect.co.uk to get notification of contracts put out to tender.

 

Infrastructure

  • Annual IT Infrastructure Budget 2022/2023
    • £500,000
  • Current primary storage vendors and replacement/refresh dates.
    • Hitachi, no refresh date installed January 2023
    • Storage backed up is 17TB
    • We use Veeam for storage management.
  • Desktops/Laptop/2 in 1
    • Lenovo
    • 350
    • Equipment is replaced on a break fix basis
    • Windows 10 OS
  • Servers
    • HP * Migrating to data centre Jan 23.
    • 67 Virtual Servers
    • 7 Physical Servers
    • Use VMWare
    • Windows 20012/2016/2019/2022
  • Server vendor and replacement/refresh date:
    • HP, no refresh date set
  • Data centre refresh date.
    • N/A
  • Amount of used storage and number of virtual / physical servers.
    • 60TB, 67 Virtual Servers, 7 physical
  • Do we utilise desktop virtualisation technologies?
    • No
  • Which hypervisor do we use?
    • VMWare
  • Total available budget for IT infrastructure.
    • No specific budget for infrastructure. Monies are allocated on a project by project basis.
  • Network
    • Cat 6 cabling, installed 2017
    • Huawei switches
    • public wi-fi
    • Staff do not access the network via wi-fi.

 

Data Connections

  • Broadband provider : Ducl

 

Third Party Software utilised

Vendor

Modules/Service

Cost

Contract End Date

Third Party Software

Uniform

Building Control, Planning (Development Control), Local Land Charges, Environmental Health.

£28.000pa

 

 

Grounds Maintenance

None - Service is outsourced

 

GGP

GIS and Address Management (LLPG)

£15,000 pa

 

Lalpac

Licensing (inlc Taxi's, alcohol, etc.)

£3,500 pa

 

 

Private Sector Housing

don't use

 

 

Trading Standards

ECC Function

 

 

Waste Management 

 

  

 

Standard Software Used

  • Office 365
  • SQl Server
  • MySql
  • Oracle

 

Mobile Apps

Castle Point has no mobile developer or invested in mobile apps. All apps developed are for the web and are reliant on being css compliant to make them mobile friendly.

 

MFD/Printers

Currently under contract to Ricoh until August 2023.

Castle Point have the following number and model of MFD's. All these machines are connected to the network via cable. Print management is handled through Papercut and users access the devices with a swipe card.

  1. Number of printers currently within the organization, including MFD´s & photocopiers.
    • Ricoh C4500 - 3
    • Ricoh C3000 - 5
    • Ricoh Desktop - 1
  2. Colour vs mono?
    • All but 1 have colour capabilities. Default printing is black and white.
  3. Annual yearly page volumes?
    • A4 800,000 2019
    • A3 7,000
  4. Main manufacturers for the printers (hardware)?
    • Ricoh
  5. Main supplier(s) of print consumables (Toner, spares, etc.)?
    • Banner/Ricoh
  6. Start and end dates for the print support contract(s) if applicable?
    • Ricoh Printers are supported by the ABSContract.
    • Ricoh MFD's are supported by Ricoh. Contract runs from 20/08/2020 for 4 years
  7. Approximate spend on printers and consumables during the financial year?
    • £2,500
  8. Length of the MFD contract(s)?
    • 4 years
  9. Approximate spend on MFD’s and consumables during the last financial year?
    • Paper spend £4,800
    • MFD Click charges 2016/2017 £9477.31
    • MFD Rental/Quarter £3,502.00
  10. Which procurement route or framework was used to procure this service?
    • OJEU
  11. The named person and their role in your organization is in charge of the procurement for printing and any managed print contracts.
    • Richard Macaskill

 

Network Breaches - last five years

Cyber Attacks

Year

Type of attack

Details

Consequences

2017-22

None

 

  

The council outsources network infrastructure and hardware support. Part of this payment includes security and as such a breakdown on costs specific to security resources is not possible. The third party is responsible for ensuring that we have firewall, server and client antivirus as well as spam filters in place.

 

Recycling of IT Equipment

IT equipment is recycled through ABS, who provide IT support to the Council. The equipment is thoroughly cleansed and a certificate of destruction provided.

 

Hosted Environments

Castle Point utilises Microsoft Office 365 for email and personal file storage, supported by Cloud Direct

The website www.castlepoint.gov.uk is hosted off site, supported by VerseOne.

Last updated : December 22