Full details of all ICT projects and initiatives undertaken by my Department since 1 January 2003, or in train on that date, are detailed in the following table:
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
ICT Projects
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Project Name/Description |
Start Date |
Estimated Cost |
Estimated End Date |
Actual Cost |
Actual End Date |
Comments |
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€ |
€ |
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Diary Booking System for Labour Court Hearings |
October 2003 |
13,500 |
November 2003 |
13,500 |
N/a |
Project will be delivered on time and within budget |
|
Employment Rights Enforcement System |
September 2002 |
860,000 |
June 2003 |
873,617 |
June 2003 |
‘Change' requests raised during the project accounted for differential. |
|
Consultancy for the Systems Analysis phase of new Redundancy System |
September 2003 |
16,335 |
November 2003 |
N/a |
N/a |
Will be delivered on time and within budget |
|
Design, Development and Implementation of an Intranet |
November 2002 |
91,476 |
March 2003 |
134,431 |
June 2003 |
The overruns on time and budget were due to significant internal change control requests and an extended User Acceptance Testing period. |
|
Implementation of usability / accessibility upgrades to BASIS website |
June 2003 |
34,140 |
August 2003 |
34,141 |
September 2003 |
Delays due to: – Need for Irish translation of updated pages – HTML validation issues |
|
ODCE Website Survey |
August 2003 |
1,120 |
August 2003 |
1,120 |
August 2003 |
Project completed on time and within budget |
|
Project Name/Description |
Start Date |
Estimated Cost |
Estimated End Date |
Actual Cost |
Actual End Date |
Comments |
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€ |
€ |
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Bilateral technical co-operation programme between the Irish Patents Office and the European Patents Office in the field of patent document management and patent information dissemination. |
November 2002 |
49,596* |
December 2003 |
N/a |
N/a |
Project is currently on schedule to be completed by end 2003 and within budget.*Cost to Patents Office represents 50% of the overall project cost of €99,192. |
|
Incorporation of Community Trade Mark Database into Patents Office Search System |
March 2003 |
37,559 |
December 2003 |
N/a |
N/a |
Project will be delivered by the end of 2003 and within budget. |
|
Development of an ICT Strategy |
June 2002 |
77,000 |
December 2002 |
77,000 |
February 2003 |
The delay was due primarily to the unavailability of key personnel. There was no additional cost involved. |
|
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan |
November 2003 |
75,000 |
March 2004 |
N/a |
N/a |
Contract has only just been awarded. |
|
Implementation of Microsoft XP |
August 2003 |
50,000 |
February 2004 |
N/a |
N/a |
Project delayed for a month due to issues arising during testing. Project will be completed March 2004. |
|
CRO Link |
March 2003 |
29,766 |
May 2003 |
29,766 |
May 2003 |
Project completed on time and within budget. |
|
Upgrade of ODCA Website |
December 2002 |
36,535 |
February 2003 |
45,588 |
February 2003 |
Overspend due to extra requirements by ODCA outside of original spec. |
|
CRO Link Upgrade |
October 2003 |
6,900 |
November 2003 |
N/a |
N/a |
Project will be completed on time and within budget. |
|
ODCA Single Integrated Database to track all correspondence to and cases taken by ODCA |
November 2002 |
84,561 |
April 2003 |
91,031 |
September 2003 |
Slippage and overspend caused by changes in requirements by ODCA outside of original spec. |
|
CRO Document Imaging Archive (CRODIA) System Transfer of images from juke boxes to a magnetic storage system |
February 2003 |
140,200 |
October 2003 |
118,520 |
October 2003 |
Project completed on time and within budget. |
|
CRO Annual Returns Backlog Project Automated matching of the data on an annual return against the data held on the Register |
January 2003 |
120,250 |
10 months |
89,225 |
13 months |
Delays in selecting the data entry service provider meant that the project was put on hold for 3 months mid-development. No cost overrun is anticipated. |
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Project Name/Description |
Start Date |
Estimated Cost |
Estimated End Date |
Actual Cost |
Actual End Date |
Comments |
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€ |
€ |
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Management Information Framework (MIF) system implementation |
February 2003 |
1,540,000 |
10 months (As stated in MIF Memoranda to Government, the project was due for completion by end November 2003) |
Project is still ongoing.Estimated cost at 7/11/03 is €1.89 million |
12 months.The project is scheduled to be completed by January 2004. |
Delays and additional costs are due to a number of factors, including:(1) Additional customisation to comply with Government Accounting procedures and to facilitate improvements in efficiency and budget management.(2) Difficulties (bugs) with the invoice-processing module of the system (3) Hardware problems that increased maintenance costs.(4) The purchase of an additional 50 software licences.(5) Provision of additional training to staff. |
|
E-Payment of Trade Mark & Patents Renewal Fees for the Patent Office |
January 2003 |
200,000 |
December 2003 |
N/a |
N/a |
Project delayed as it was decided as a matter of administrative and financial expediency that the facility for e-Payments should be extended across the entire Department, and not be restricted to the Patents Office. This additional work, together with extended discussions with the Department of Finance regarding sanction for the use of Credit and Debit Cards and agreement on how the system will be financed going forward has resulted in the go-live date being pushed back until Q1 2004. |
All costs are inclusive of VAT.