Scottish Public Pensions Agency’s ICT documents: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
I wish to obtain the following documents:
- ICT/IM&T/IS Strategy- The IT department strategy or plans; highlights their current and future objectives.
- ICT Org Chart- A visual document that present the structure of the IT department. If possible, please include name and job titles. If this can’t be sent, please consider a version with just the job titles, and the names and any other sensitive information redacted.
- ICT Annual or Business Plan- An annual update on the progress of working according to the ICT strategy / a document that highlights specific goals that you are working towards within your ICT department.
- ICT Capital Programme/budget- A document that shows financial budget regarding current and future ICT projects or goals.
If some of these documents are not yet available, please state if you have any plans to publish the documents; if so, please give a rough date of when the documents will be available.
Response
1. ICT/IM&T/IS Strategy- The IT department strategy or plans; highlights their current and future objectives.
Please see Annex A
The responsibility for drafting the IT Strategy lies with the Head of Business Evolution, a position we are currently recruiting for. As such, our most recent IT Strategy is for 2013-17.
2. ICT Org Chart- A visual document that present the structure of the IT department. If possible, please include name and job titles. If this can’t be sent, please consider a version with just the job titles, and the names and any other sensitive information redacted.
Please see Annex B
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names of individuals, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption
3. ICT Annual or Business Plan- An annual update on the progress of working according to the ICT strategy / a document that highlights specific goals that you are working towards within your ICT department.
The IT Team have identified the following tasks to prioritise in 2019-20.
| SPPA IT - Deliverables 2019 - 2020 |
| Altair Upgrade - IT Infrastructure |
| Resource Link Payroll Migration - IT Assurance |
| IT Review |
| IT Documentation |
| Training Business Cases |
| Business Case for Oracle Consultancy |
| Move Altair to new Infrastructure |
| onSCOTS WiFi install |
| QA Group revision for Windows upgrades |
| SPPA Cloud |
| Red Hat & Oracle Upgarde on Rlink |
| Set up Web View/Rlink for DR |
| Rlink DR Test |
| Network Resilience Upgrade |
| DR Servers moved to SH Data Centre |
| Move Rlink to DMZ |
| Altair DR Test |
| SPPA Web Site Redevelopment |
| Stress Test Procurement and running for web services |
| Penetration testing for Altair, Rlink & Epicor |
| MATSOFT Low Code |
| VOIP Telephony Update - Mitel Project |
| eRDM Project - Initial investigation on use at SPPA |
| Admin Rights |
| IT SLA's |
| Investigate Rlink move to DMZ with Zellis |
| Audit SPPA DL's - change this to SPPA Apex DB's?? |
| System Maintenance documentation - times dates for all systems |
| Resource Link Apex DB |
| ITIL Training |
4. ICT Capital Programme/budget- A document that shows financial budget regarding current and future ICT projects or goals.
| SPPA IT capital expenditure 2019-20 | 2019-20 – Budget £k |
| Pension administration and payroll System | 3,405 |
| Contingency | 224 |
| Small software/hardware items e.g. PC’s, servers, switches | 200 |
| Telephony software application | 50 |
| Other system enhancements | 46 |
| Total | 3,925 |
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