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Software Applications Used by Council Departments

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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the software applications used across departments at your authority. Please provide the following details for each department:

1. Name of each software application currently in use

2. Whether the application is installed locally on devices, hosted on a Virtual Desktop, or virtual app basis (Citrix or Azure VDI, or similar) or hosted by the developer (cloud-based/SaaS)

3. Current version number of each application

4. Number of licences held for each application

5. Contract type – whether the contract is rolling or fixed-term

6. Annual cost of each application

The departments I am referring to include (but are not limited to):
o Planning and Building Control
o Council Tax
o Bins, Rubbish and Recycling
o Housing
o Parking, Streets and Transport
o Benefits and Grants
o Business Support
o Environmental Health
o Anti-social Behaviour and Crime
o Health, Sport and Fitness
o Elections and Councillors
o Climate Change Strategy
o Events and Community Engagement
o Job Vacancies and HR
o Apprenticeships and People Strategy
o Finance and Audit
o Assets and Business Development
o Transformation and Communities
o Culture, Health, Town Centre and Rural Services
o Streetscene Services
o ICT Shared Services
o Revenues and Benefits Partnership
If any of this information is already publicly available, I would appreciate it if you could direct me to the relevant resources.
This information is available on our Contract Register https://procontract.due-north.com/Register

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