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Apologies for Absence Minutes: None. |
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Declarations of Interests Minutes: None. |
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Minutes of the meeting held on 10 November 2020, for confirmation. Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on 10 November 2020 were confirmed as a correct record. |
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IT Equipment Programme PDF 427 KB Report of the Portfolio Holder for Leisure, Culture and IT Minutes: Simon Salmon, Head of IT, requested that this item be deferred to a future meeting in order to review requirements and budget considerations. |
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Statutory Regulatory Services Digital Platform Investment - Key Decision PDF 381 KB Report of the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Growth and the City Centre, and the Portfolio Holder of Housing, Planning and Heritage
Additional documents: Minutes: This report was approved in writing by the Chief Executive prior to the meeting as required by the Council’s Constitution for all capital expenditure.
Pete Mitchell, Head of Regulation, introduced the report on tendering for a replacement for Civica’s Authority Public Protection (APP ‘Flare’) system which has been in operation within Nottingham City Council (NCC) since 2006. Civica UK Ltd, Flare’s supplier announced the system will become unsupported from September 2022 and NCC’s supply contract ends at the same time. NCC cannot adequately or efficiently respond to its statutory requirements without having a digital solution in place and so it is recommended that a replacement is tendered.
The replacement system will be more efficient and suitable for mobile working, as well as being more compatible with other Council IT systems.
Resolved to
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delegate authority to the Strategic Director of
Community Protection to enter into a 5year (+2year option) contract
through an approved Crown Commercial Services framework with the
supplier offering best value; (2) approve the expenditure detailed in the exempt appendix to the report.
Reasons for recommendations:
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To ensure that the Council can adequately continue to deliver its
statutory functions in relation to Community Protection from
September 2022. ·
To comply with Financial Regulations relating to testing the market
to demonstrate best value for money is being obtained. ·
To ensure business continuity for Community Protection and
Nottingham City Council with a new supplier contract in place
before the existing contact and solution expires. ·
To provide adequate time and resources to replace the existing
solution in a seamless and cost effectively way. Note: The
replacement solution will require an estimated 18 months to
install, set up, configure, and migrate to the new
system. ·
To maintain colleague engagement, focus and buy-in to the project.
The project started in October 2019 by defining problems,
opportunities and requirements. A considerable engagement exercise
has considered all market options and has clear
recommendations. ·
To reduce the organisational and community risk of not being able
to operate adequate, effective and efficient services as a result
of any period of time having to use an unsupported
solution. · To pro-actively plan and build services for a post crisis organisation considering changes to regulations and legislation as a result of external treats, Covid-19 and Brexit, and internal treats, budget pressures and changing city environment.
Other options considered in making recommendations:
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Do Nothing. Allow APP Flare to fall out of support, but continue
usage. This is not recommended: o This would put NCC at a very high risk; if the system failed, or Central Government changed the legislative framework, NCC would be on its own to resolve this. o NCC would still have to pay Civica for the intellectual property right to use the unsupported software. o The system would become increasingly insecure as it would not be kept up to date with any technical security changes or updates in the computer server or network environment. Citizen, Business and NCC data would therefore be at an increasing risk, especially of ... view the full minutes text for item 29. |
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Exclusion of the Public To consider excluding the public from the meeting during consideration of the remaining item(s) in accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the basis that, having regard to all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information Minutes: The Committee decided to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration the remaining agenda item in accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the basis that, having regard to all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information, as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act. |
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Statutory Regulatory Services Digital Platform Investment - Key Decision - Exempt Appendix Report of the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Growth and the City Centre, and the Portfolio Holder of Housing, Planning and Heritage
Minutes: Resolved to note the information contained in the exempt appendix. |