Make, buy... or do without?
In a rapidly changing fiscal and technological landscape, what represents good value for money is also changing. No procurement contract lasts forever, and you can save your authority big money and align it with best practice by reviewing your IT-related contracts with the help of experts.
Nobody understands local authority IT better than Socitm. Our consultants can help you achieve greater value for money by examining issues such as:
- In house or outsource? In areas such as desktop support, printing and security, the balance is constantly shifting on a service by service basis. We can examine your service portfolio and advise whether you would do better to outsource, bring back in house or do without entirely
- Software licensing and support. We can review your contracts and identify options for savings by eliminating redundant applications, reducing user counts and validating supplier support charges
- Website, intranet and content management. Many authorities are spending well over the odds, and inertia often means no one challenges this. We can help you change that
- Infrastructure and consumables. Basic hardware (servers, networks etc) and consumables are commodity items nowadays. Are you getting commodity pricing?
- Shared services. We may be able to uncover and help you exploit opportunities for sharing IT facilities with other councils or local public service providers
I would be pleased to discuss these options with you. Please call me on 0845 450 2317 or reply to this email if you would like to arrange this.