Approval to retender the contract for hosting and supporting Oracle.

The Portfolio Holder for Finance and Legal Services, presented the report informing Members the ICT service had conducted a review of supplier contracts and believed that an opportunity existed to reduce the overall annual running costs of Oracle by re-tendering both the hosting and support contracts.

Councillor Hebb stated by going out to tender on the contract could potentially save the Council £0.5millon.

The Leader of the Council commented that by finding such savings enabled the Council to put funds back into front line services.

RESOLVED that Cabinet:

1.            Agree and support the proposal to commission a tender exercise in accordance with EU procedures for the supply of Oracle DBA Support, Hosting Services, Technical Support and Software Maintenance for a period of 2 years with the option to extend the contract by a further 2 years; and

2.            Approves delegation to the Director of Finance and IT to enter into and award the necessary contracts following the procurement process, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance and Legal.

Reason for Decision - as stated in the report

This decision is subject to call-in