Agenda and decisions
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Contact: Carol Eddleston, Senior Democratic Services Advisor
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Apologies for absence |
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Declarations of interest |
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To approve, as a correct record, the minutes of the meeting held on 3 June 2020 |
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Matters arising |
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Decision items - Part 1 (open to the public) |
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Request for Approval - Contract Award - MS Licensing Decision: Salford City Council - Record of Decision
I Paul Dennett, City Mayor, in exercise of the powers contained within the Council Constitution do hereby approve the award of the contract for MS Licensing as outlined in the table below:
The Reasons are: The Councils Microsoft Licensing is approaching the end of its current framework contract. This procurement seeks to renew the licensing, to the latest Office 365 offerings, this provides Salford City Council the ability to utilise all of the Microsoft products currently available, simplifying the licencing model that is now coming to an end, this is done by taking away the user login account licences and separate application licences merging them into a more cost effective single licence. A further enhancement to our staff enabling them to present and digest data at more local levels, understanding our geographic residential footprint and in turn become more proactive to the residential requirements and future offerings.
The functionality that comes with Microsoft 365 package has allowed the organisation response to COVID19 be successfully implemented, the majority of the workforce have transformed services from into virtual offerings using applications and services such as MS Teams, One Drive, MS Bookings from many within the portfolio. The Microsoft 365 package has enabled democratic decision making to be transparent and the public to participate in the democratic process of the local authority through the streaming of live meetings for instance planning panel, Licensing Panel and Full Council.
In order for Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) to provide a modern secure collaborative platform for all the council services and continue to provide full agility to our workforce. Further Microsoft Teams enhancements become available under the new contract, I.e. Telephony, conference numbers.
Enhancement to our cyber security will be increased with the use of modern cloud enabled services and provisions.
As part of the upgrade this will remove the restrictions, we currently have around providing access to future digital improvements. Additionally, in response to ... view the full decision text for item 5a |
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Any other business - Part 1 (open to the public) |
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Exclusion of the public |
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Decision items - Part 2 (closed to the public) |
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Date and time of next meeting 09:00am on Wednesday 1 July via MS Teams. |
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