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ICT Senior Project/Contract Manager (Procurement), East Sussex County Council ICT Services Department (Contract)
This was a Senior interim management role reviewing and improving the business management of ICT equipment and services’ projects, especially in the areas of network technology procurement and service level agreements.
- Next Generation Network (NGN) project’s objective is to provide an integrated IP
telephony and an MPLS data network to all areas of East Sussex Council offices and
schools. The network is based on a Cisco platform and BT Converged solution. A key
part of the project is to link all schools using a FWA radio solution. I was in
charge of negotiating the supply of this key £10m+ project with BT and starting the
project within Prince II principles. The requirement was to ensure the ‘spend to
save’ project generated cost savings in excess of £400k to the Council. The contract
was negotiated within EC rules and via an OGC (Office of Government Commerce) G-
Cat frame work contract. - I negotiated a contract with DELL/EMC to refresh the Council’s Storage Area Network (SAN). This doubled capacity, increased access speed and reduced operating cost by 10%, enabling the Council to improve its in house information services and providing the advanced services required of the new NGN IP telephony system. This was one of the first ICT lease contracts signed by the council and procured under a CBC frame work contract. The project was fully implemented to time and budget. Contract value £2.5m over 5 years.
- I managed the upgrade and review of all supplier contracts to the Council’s in-
house print facility where the key performance target was to reduce in costs of £100K per year. The major equipment was leased and the equipment was procured using a OGC CATaLIst framework lease contract. The project was fully implemented on time and to budget. Contract value £5m.