FOI release

FOI2020-07798 Intranet Systems

Published 5 August 2020

Dear

I am writing in response to your email dated 9th July 2020 requesting the following information,

  • How many people are employed by your organisation, including full time and part time?
  • What is your current intranet solution? (Sharepoint, Wordpress, Invotra, etc)
  • How long have you been using this intranet solution?
  • When is your intranet contract up for renewal?
  • What is your annual intranet budget?
  • Do you share an intranet/IT services with other organisations, if so who?
  • Which team and/or individual(s) are responsible for managing your intranet internally?
  • Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so, which applications from the suite are in use?
  • Which team and/or individual(s) are responsible for your intranet’s procurement within the organisation?
  • Is your Active Directory hosted on-premise, or in the cloud?
  • Could you provide us with a link to your Digital Workplace Strategy? I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

In response to your queries, I have completed a search for the information within the Defence Electronics & Components Agency (DECA), and I can confirm that we do hold information in scope of your request.

  • How many people are employed by your organisation, including full time and part time?

On the 9th July DECA employed 364 full time and 60 part time staff

  • What is your current intranet solution? (Sharepoint, Wordpress, Invotra, etc)

In-house developed

  • How long have you been using this intranet solution?

5-years

  • When is your intranet contract up for renewal?

No contract in place

  • What is your annual intranet budget?

£0

  • Do you share an intranet/IT services with other organisations, if so who?

No

  • Which team and/or individual(s) are responsible for managing your intranet internally?

Information Services Team within DECA

  • Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so, which applications from the suite are in use?

No

  • Which team and/or individual(s) are responsible for your intranet’s procurement within the organisation?

Procurement Team within DECA

  • Is your Active Directory hosted on-premise, or in the cloud?

On-premise

  • Could you provide us with a link to your Digital Workplace Strategy?

Under section 21 of the FOIA, the information you have requested for this question is reasonably accessible to the public and can be accessed through the GOV.UK webpages

If you are not satisfied with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of the handling of your request, then you should contact me in the first instance. If informal resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review by contacting the Information Rights Compliance team, Ground Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB or by e-mailing, [email protected]. Please note that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has ended.

If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act. Please note that the Information Commissioner will not investigate your case until the MOD internal review process is complete. You can find further details of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner on the Commissioner’s website.

Regards

DECA FOI