Transcript Schools Broadband Value for Money - Essex Schools Infolink

Schools Forum
Date:
22nd
Agenda Item 12
October 2014
Essex County Council
Schools Broadband Services
Report by Tracey Kelsbie
Contact details [email protected]
Background
1. Purpose of report
The purpose of the report is to provide the summary of the value for money report for
Schools Forum.
2. Recommendations
We continue with our current supplier (DUCL). Education are currently reviewing the
pricing structure for charging both LA controlled schools and academies for 2015/16
and report back to Schools Forum in December.
3. Background
In the schools forum meeting it was agreed that the centralised funding for schools
broadband would be accepted for 2014/15 and supplementary information would be
provided to schools forum which would include a value for money benchmarking
report for schools broadband. Following is a summary of the report.
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Value for Money Report Summary
Current Service Packaged Offerings for the Essex Schools Broadband Service
Internet Service Provision (10mb Primary/Special and 100Mb Secondary
Internet filtering to PAS74 standard and age appropriate services
Transparent Proxy Internet Filtering Service
Virus Protection for School Equipment
Domain Name Services (DNS)
Simple Message Transport system with spam protection (SMTP)
Firewall Services – To protect schools from the Internet
Public IP Address management for school services
Connection to JAnet service for education
Video Conferencing Core service
Web Hosting for school websites
Secure Connectivity to Essex Council Services for schools
Secure Encrypted Backup system for finance and confidential data
Helpdesk support 24x7 and automated monitoring of the network
Fully Managed Service for Schools
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Benchmarking Control Criteria
Schools Selected
Primary School Rural
Secondary School
Great Sampford Primary
Finchingfield Road
Great Sampford
Essex
Davenant Foundation School
Chester Road
Loughton
Essex
Primary School Urban
Special School
White Court School
Ennerdale Avenue
Great Notley
Braintree
Marketfield School
School Road
Elmstead Market
Colchester
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Current Price Breakdown
The service provided to the school is a 10Mb Internet service complete with
all of the options detailed on the Current Service Offerings Slide. 107 Pupils
Cost DUCL: £10,584 Alternative 3rd Party Supplier : £11,778
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Current Price Breakdown
The service provided to the school is a 10Mb Internet service complete with
all of the options detailed on the Current Service Offerings Slide. 588 Pupils
Cost DUCL: £3,928 Alternative 3rd Party Supplier: £6,702
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Current Price Breakdown
Davenant Foundation School
The service provided to the school is a 100Mb Internet service complete with
all of the options detailed on the Current Service Offerings Slide. 1168 Pupils
Cost DUCL: £17,249 Alternative 3rd Party Supplier: £17,413
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Current Price Breakdown
Marketfield School
The service provided to the school is a 10Mb Internet service complete with
all of the options detailed on the Current Service Offerings Slide. 185 Pupils
Cost DUCL: £4,203.76 Alternative 3rd Party Supplier: £6,702
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Conclusion
To highlight some of the major benefits that schools receive from this Service :
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Value for Money for this service when compared to an alternative 3rd Party Supplier;
Dedicated schools helpdesk focused on first time fix with experienced staff over a wide range of services;
Strict SLAs for response and fix times;
A private network with little contention;
2 x resilient data centres providing mission critical access to the internet and hosted services;
99.99% availability proven track record;
Focused account management and marketing resource e.g. termly newsletters;
Excellent security with yearly security penetration testing conducted to protect schools;
Economies of scale to provide advanced technologies to schools.
Next Steps:•
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Presentation to the Schools Forum Meeting In December to seek funding for 15/16;
Review of service package to potentially remove little used services (Video Conferencing) and provision
Alternative services being requested by schools (Cloud back-ups).