{"id":7660,"date":"2011-11-21T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2011-11-21T23:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T23:12:39","slug":"some-good-news-big-savings-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/some-good-news-big-savings-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Good News – Big Savings On IT"},"content":{"rendered":"
There’s some good news for our District Council this month<\/a> – there’s going to be big savings on our new IT contract.<\/p>\n Rochford went into a partnership with Castle Point, Colchester and Braintree to go out to tender jointly on an IT contract to serve all four authorities.<\/p>\n The end result is that there are economies of scale that come from four councils working together. Rochford will save about ?400,000 over the next five years from this partnership.<\/p>\n In this instance there’s been some useful cross-party co-operation. A special panel of Rochford councillors was set up to monitor the process. And whilst the lead councillor here in Rochford was Conservative Gill Lucas-Gill, at Colchester the key councillor was Lib Dem Blogger Nick Barlow.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s some good news for our District Council this month – there’s going to be big savings on our new IT contract. Rochford went into a partnership with Castle Point, Colchester and Braintree to go out to tender jointly on an IT contract to serve all four authorities. The end result is that there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n