Nick Wright ICT Services Manager

1. Nick Wright ICT Services Manager Demonstrating Assurance and Best Practice in IT Procurement

2. Blackpool & The Fylde College

3. Challenges of an Ageing IT Infrastructure • Consistent Lack of Investment • Capacity Problems • Poor Maintenance • Future Challenges • Delivering FELTAG Recommendations • Increasingly Demanding Customers • Access Anywhere Anytime • Safety and Security • Wide ranging technology refresh

4. Funding • Department for Business Innovation and Skills • Skills Funding Agency • Local Enterprise Partnerships • European Social Fund • Local Employers

5. Accountability • Increasing demands from sources of funding to demonstrate value in IT procurement • Internal and External • Demonstrable due diligence • Demonstrating commercial insight • Best use of resources

6. Delivering Assurance • Gathering and presenting documentation • Historical purchasing data • Being “auditable” • Involving your Procurement and Finance Teams • Reporting • Benchmarking performance

7. IT Procurement Toolkit • Brings the Assurance Elements together • Quote request history • Supplier directory • Historical purchases • Price benchmarking • Historical pricing • Framework performance • Share with teams outside IT

8. Central to processing all IT purchases, large and small • Benchmark tool for all suppliers to measure pricing performance • Drives best practice in procurement

9. A Case Study 28th May 2014, the goal to procure 140 Cisco 2602i wireless access points. The amounts below are price per unit ex. vat. Incumbent Supplier £390.00 Knowledgebus IT Edition £359.56 Actual Price Achieved £341.66 On the 21st July 2014 a further request for 311 Cisco 2702i access points (the new upgraded model) achieved a per unit price of £263.89