The council of Shropshire will engage in a £600,000 ICT infrastructure plan to amend its ICT infrastructure.

Adrian Ridpath, the council’s interim head of ICT strategy, was appointed in September to undertake the reform of the ICT infrastructure plan over the next three months. The new plan aims to solve the several complaints from the staff and councillors about the quality of the current ICT arrangements.

The new infrastructure plan includes a team of 14 consultants to redesign the whole ICT architecture, with the aim of improving the functionality and user experience. David Turner, a portfolio holder for resources, finance & support and IT at the council, said:

“This should present us with some invest to save proposals which hopefully will prove that by buying or leasing new systems, equipment and training our staff, we will overall, save money and improve performance”.

An additional team of eight professionals – at a cost of £200,000 – will carry out ICT business continuity and disaster recovery core system testing. Therefore, the new plan will not only improve the functionality and user experience but it will also make the disaster recovery arrangements more robust.

The project is expected to be delivered by March 2016 thus enabling the council to procure new ICT arrangements as contracts for current systems run down.

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