§ Mr. SayeedTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list information technology contracts in his Department above £20 million in each of the last 10 years; what the inception date for each system was; when it became fully functional; when it became fully debugged; and what the cost of over-runs has been. [146194]
§ Mr. HuttonThe information technology (IT) contracts let by the Department of Health and its arms length bodies in the last 10 years in excess of £20 million are shown in the table. Costs are shown as whole life costs and may, therefore, include elements of internal costs. A number of the contracts listed are IT framework contracts which National Health Service organisations can utilise to deliver IT infrastructure and software services
Information about when NHS systems became fully debugged and the cost of over-runs is not held centrally.
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Contract Whole life cost (£m) Inception date Fully functional 1994 (None awarded in 1994) 1995 NHSNet central framework contract with BT and Cable & Wireless 129.6 1995 7–10 year contract 1996 for BT 1997 for Cable & Wireless Nation-Wide Clearing Service 30.0 1996 8 year contract (basic contract period of 5 years plus option to extend for 3 years). 1996 Infrastructure Management Services Framework agreement 40.0 1996 5 year contract with Fujitsu to support DH infrastructure services, with optional extension up to 7 years 1997–99 (None awarded in 199–9) 2000 Project Connect (formerly GPNet) 150.0 2000 6 year contract, with gradual rollout from date of contract signature in December 2000. This funding represents the cost of Wide Area Networks to connect GPs to NHSNet. In addition to this, £318 million more was committed to the provision of the necessary Local Area Networks within each GP practice. However, as this effectively involved one contract per practice, all of this money was committed in small contracts. Clinical Messaging 50.0 2000 7 year contract. Gradual rollout from 2000. NHS Direct-Clinical Decision Support, Software 22.3 2000 7 year contract. The level of cash-releasing benefits means that the contract pays for itself. 2001 Microsoft software enterprise agreement 138.6 2001 3 year contract. This is a software purchase contract Electronic Staff Record 325.0 2001 10 year contract. Gradual rollout from 2001 2002 Shared Services Centres two pilot centres 21.0 2002 2 year contract NHS Net purchase of additional bandwidth 96.5 2002 5 year contract. Gradual rollout from 2002 Email and directory services 326.2 2002 10 year contract. System scheduled to be completely rolled out by March 2003 Dental Practice Board—reprocurement of IT systems 40.0 2003 Two related contracts, both running for 7 years— one with IBM (£31. 9m) and one with Astron(formerly Hays) (8. 1m) Infrastructure Management Services Framework Agreement 60 2002 7 year contract with CSC to support DH IT infrastructure services, with optional extension up to 10 years. 2003 NHS Direct intelligent phones 29.7 2003 6 year contract National Programme: National Electronic 64.5 October 2003 5 year contract. National rollout complete 2005. Booking System (core services) Options exist for extensions to contract length and range of services provided. National Programme: NHS Care Record Service (NCRS) "data spine" 620 December 2003 9 year contract plus one year optional extension. National Programme: NCRS, London Cluster 996 (core services) December 2003 9 year contract plus one year optional extension. National Programme: NCRS, North East Cluster 1,099 (core services) December 2003 9 year contract plus one year optional extension. National Programme: NCRS, North West and West Midlands Cluster 973 (core services) December 2003 9 year contract plus one year optional extension National Programme: NCRS, Eastern Cluster 934 (core services) December 2003 9 year contract plus one year optional extension 2004 National Programme: NCRS, South Cluster Contract yet to be signed National Programme: New National Network (N3) infrastructure Contract yet to be signed