Question 1
Please find below the response to your recent Freedom of Information enquiry from Weston
Area Health NHS Trust. ( Responses shown in red)
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Contract Title: Server Hardware Maintenance
Contract Type: No Contract
Existing/Current Supplier: Dell
Hardware Brand: Dell
Operating System / Software(Platform): (Windows, Linux, Unix, Vmware Etc.)
Windows
6. Annual Average Spend: (For The Whole Duration Of The Contract, If The Total
Value Sent Is Per Annum Please State This In The Response) No Contract
7. Contract Duration: (Please Can You Also Include Notes If The Contract
Includes Any Contract Extension Periods.) No Contract
8. Contract Expiry Date: No Contract
9. Contract Review Date: (An Approximate Date Of When The Organisation Is
Planning To Review This Particular Contract.) No Contract
10. Brief Contract Description: 5yr Dell Pro Support Provided With All Hardware
Purchased As Part Of National Nhs Purchasing Agreement
11. Internal Contact: (The Person From Within The Organisation That Is Responsible
For Reviewing And Renewing This Particular Contract. Please Include There Full
Name, Job Title, Direct Contact Number And Direct Email Address.) The Trust Does
Not Provide Details Of Staff Below The Level Of Associate Director Via Foi. All Managers
Can Be Approached Using Their Job Title By Telephone On 01934 636363.
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Contract Title: Virtualisation Maintenance/Support
Contract Type: No Contract
Existing/Current Supplier: Dell
Hardware Brand: Dell
Operating System / Software(Platform): (Windows, Linux, Unix, Vmware Etc.)
Vmware
6. Annual Average Spend: (For The Whole Duration Of The Contract, If The Total
Value Sent Is Per Annum Please State This In The Response) No Contract
7. Contract Duration: (Please Can You Also Include Notes If The Contract
Includes Any Contract Extension Periods.) No Contract
8. Contract Expiry Date: No Contract
9. Contract Review Date: (An Approximate Date Of When The Organisation Is
Planning To Review This Particular Contract.) No Contract
10. Brief Contract Description: 5yr Dell Pro Support Provided With All Hardware
Purchased As Part Of National Nhs Purchasing Agreement
11. Internal Contact: (The Person From Within The Organisation That Is Responsible
For Reviewing And Renewing This Particular Contract. Please Include There Full
Name, Job Title, Direct Contact Number And Direct Email Address.) The Trust Does
Not Provide Details Of Staff Below The Level Of Associate Director Via Foi. All Managers
Can Be Approached Using Their Job Title By Telephone On 01934 636363.
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Contract Title: Storage Area Network Maintenance/Support
Contract Type: No Contract
Existing/Current Supplier: Dell
Hardware Brand: Dell
Operating System / Software(Platform): (Windows, Linux, Unix, Vmware Etc.)
Equilogic
6. Annual Average Spend: (For The Whole Duration Of The Contract, If The Total
Value Sent Is Per Annum Please State This In The Response) No Contract
7. Contract Duration: (Please Can You Also Include Notes If The Contract Includes
Any Contract Extension Periods.) No Contract
8. Contract Expiry Date: No Contract
9. Contract Review Date: (An Approximate Date Of When The Organisation Is
Planning To Review This Particular Contract.) No Contract
10. Brief Contract Description: 5yr Dell Pro Support Provided With All Hardware
Purchased As Part Of National Nhs Purchasing Agreement
11. Internal Contact: (The Person From Within The Organisation That Is Responsible
For Reviewing And Renewing This Particular Contract. Please Include There Full
Name, Job Title, Direct Contact Number And Direct Email Address.) The Trust Does
Not Provide Details Of Staff Below The Level Of Associate Director Via Foi. All Managers Can
Be Approached Using Their Job Title By Telephone On 01934 636363.
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Contract Title: Virtualisation Licensing
Contract Type: No Contract
Existing/Current Supplier: Vmware
Hardware Brand: Not Hardware
Operating System / Software(Platform): (Windows, Linux, Unix, Vmware Etc.)
Vmware
6. Annual Average Spend: (For The Whole Duration Of The Contract, If The Total
Value Sent Is Per Annum Please State This In The Response) No Contract
7. Contract Duration: (Please Can You Also Include Notes If The Contract
Includes Any Contract Extension Periods.) No Contract
8. Contract Expiry Date: No Contract
9. Contract Review Date: (An Approximate Date Of When The Organisation Is
Planning To Review This Particular Contract.) No Contract
10. Brief Contract Description: 1yr Standard Licence Support Only
11. Internal Contact: (The Person From Within The Organisation That Is Responsible
for reviewing and renewing this particular contract. Please include there full name,
job title, direct contact number and direct email address.) The Trust does not provide
details of staff below the level of Associate Director via FOI. All managers can be
approached using their job title by telephone on 01934 636363.
I trust that your request has been satisfactorily answered, but I should advise you that you
have the right to complain about this response by reference to the complaints procedure of
the Weston Area Health NHS Trust, in which case you should write to me at this email
address.
If you remain dissatisfied with the decision of the Trust following your complaint, you may
write to the Information Commissioner, whose address is:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF.
Question 2
Please find below the response to your recent Freedom of Information enquiry from Weston
Area Health NHS Trust.
I am hoping to estimate the potential savings that could be made within the NHS by the
implementation of PC power management software in many NHS Trusts. In order to do this I
would like to collect some data about IT usage in your Trust as follows:
- Number of desktop computers / work stations in the hospital (excluding PACS
machines).
1450 total workstations.
- Inactive (but turned on) desktop computer hours per week for the entire hospital (excluding
PACS machines).
Under Section 1 the Trust is unable to answer this as we have no way to monitor
this.
- Active desktop computer operating hours per week for the entire hospital (excluding PACS
machines).
Under Section 1 the Trust is unable to answer this as we have no way to monitor
this.
- Has any PC power management software has been
implemented?
Standard Windows Power Management
- If any PC power management software has been implemented, which software has been
implemented?
Standard Windows Power Management
- If any PC power management software has been implemented, how has this affected the
number of inactive computer hours in the hospital?
Under Section 1 the Trust is unable to answer this as we have no way to monitor
this.
I trust that your request has been satisfactorily answered, but I should advise you that you
have the right to complain about this response by reference to the complaints procedure of
the Weston Area Health NHS Trust, in which case you should write to me at this email
address.
Question 3
Please find below the response to your recent Freedom of Information enquiry from Weston
Area Health NHS Trust.
1. Desktop anti-virus
McAfee – 3yrs - 2017 – approx £13000
2. Protection of Microsoft Exchange environment (please state if this is not applicable due to
the use of NHSmail/NHSmail2)
Not applicable – use NHSmail
3. Email gateway (please state if this is not applicable due to the use of NHSmail/NHSmail2)
Not applicable – use NHSmail
4. Web gateway
Barracuda – 3 years - February 2018 – £9000
5. Mobile device management/enterprise mobility management
Dell – cloud based – 5yrs - 2020 – FOC
6. Hard disk encryption
See answers to Q1
7. Removable media encryption
None
7. Firewall
Cisco – 3 years - December 2017 – £5934
8. VPN
Aruba – 5 years - January 2018 – unknown cost
9. Two factor authentication provider
None
9. Wireless network provider
Aruba – 5 years - January 2018 – unknown cost
10. Virtual server software provider and number of virtual servers (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V
etc.)
VMWARE – 8 hosts – 90 VMs – various durations - various expiries – unknown cost
11. VDI software provider and number of VDI instances
None
12. Network access control solution provider
None
13. Security information and event management (SIEM) solution provider
None
Please also provide:
1. The total number of computers within the organisation.
1450
2. The total number of smartphones within the organisation.
No Smartphones, Blackbery devices within Estates dept. control.
3. The total number of tablet devices within the organisation.
Trust owned – 30
4. Details of whether IT security is provided by an in-house team or by a third party – if by a
third party please state who provides the service and when the contract expires.
In house
I trust that your request has been satisfactorily answered, but I should advise you that you
have the right to complain about this response by reference to the complaints procedure of
the Weston Area Health NHS Trust, in which case you should write to me at this email
address.
If you remain dissatisfied with the decision of the Trust following your complaint, you may
write to the Information Commissioner, whose address is:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF.