Request

Please could you provide me with the attached information about your organisation's ICT expenditure:

Application Development - External supplier developing software customised to your requirements

Application Integration - External supplier integrating separate applications you use to enable exchange of functionality/information

Application Hosting - Hosting applications on an external supplier's servers

Other Hosting - Web or file hosting on an external supplier's servers

IT Consulting - External supplier providing advice about how to align IT to business requirements. Please exclude maintenance, support or advice through a managed service

Permanent IT staff - Salary costs of internal, permanent IT staff

Temporary IT staff - Salary costs of internal, temporary IT staff

Please include expenditure for the period April to March (or closest period based on your financial year). Please enter in £s, not £000s or £ms.

Please include revenue and capital expenditure, if possible.

Please do not include spend through a managed service. If any or all of the above are provided through a managed service, please enter '0', and state 'Managed service' in Comments column.

Response

A copy of the information is attached.

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