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Helping the customer understand the role of EDT, our services and products and helping to identify the right solution to meet their business objectives.
CI offers a modular ‘build once, use many’ architecture. The development of common IT standards across government helps to avoid future rework costs associated with interoperability problems when joining up systems. The managed services are available to all other parts of government, without the need for complex procurement, providing scope for reduced costs, increased security and availability. CI drastically reduces the time to market, the total cost of ownership and complements departmental agendas.
Adopting CI allows you to focus on core business objectives, reduces time to procure, offers opportunity for joining up across government and is developed with government in mind. Long-term operational costs should be lower, enhancements can be deployed faster, benefits are realised sooner and less risk is taken in construction and delivery. This will be demonstrated through industry benchmarking, case studies and testimonials.
It is important to understand how CI fits your specific business needs. This could be to support secure transactions for your e-services without the need to develop your own solution or to make use of another departments investment into a solution that is common to many of us. You may even be the department to first sponsor a new piece of CI.
The purpose of this letter is to give guidance on realising value for money in electronic government projects. It sets out the scope of the common infrastructure maintained by the E-Government Unit and outlines the potential advantages that it offers for reducing cost and enabling services across the whole of government. This guidance is intended to assist Accounting Officers in ensuring that their department's expenditure on projects to which the central infrastructure is relevant secures overall value for money for Government as a whole.
DAO Letter
The process of using CI to deliver key components of your e-services is made easier by the help and support that will be provided by EDT and its partner organisations. By working together in a planned and co-coordinated way and building upon the experience from other implementations and transitions to CI, we will ensure the process is as smooth and straight forward as possible.
In building up your business case it is important to reference:
This document sets out your commitment to use specific CI components, i.e. that EDT is your preferred supplier. It differs from the Overarching or Master MOU that Departments have signed with eGU, because that document indicates intent. The MOU Part 1 agrees our commitment to deliver and your commitment to use CI. The MOU 1 does not financially commit you, but does reassure EDT that investing time and resources into your due diligence of CI will lead to a signature of the MOU Part 2.
Engagement with EDT will always be managed by our solutions team to begin with and they will call on appropriate specialist teams as necessary. Please contact us at the following email if you would like further information:
edt@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
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