Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 10 October 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what computerisation or IT failures have occurred in projects managed by his Department in each year since 1997; what the contracted cost of the project was in each case; and what estimate he has made of the (a) direct and (b) indirect costs of failure or breakdown in each case.
Since 1997 the Department of Trade and Industry (excluding agencies) has experienced one significant computerisation or IT failure in a project managed by the Department.
Personnel records system project.
Contracted total cost of project £750,000.
Contract terminated in February 1999 before project completion.
An estimate of costs was made as part of a settlement agreed with the supplier which is subject to a confidentiality agreement. The release of details related to the agreed settlement would prejudice commercial interests.
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