2013 Report details for project: N3 Extension
| Project name | N3 Extension - there are 2 reports for this project: 2013, 2014 |
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| Organisation | DOH (D12) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2013 (data is from September 2012) |
| Category | ICT - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | N3 is the National Network for the NHS. It is a Wide Area Network (WAN) deployed as a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and is one of the largest in Europe. It provides reliable, supporting IT infrastructure, world class Internet Protocol (IP) networking services and sufficient, secure connectivity and broadband capacity to meet current and future NHS IT needs. It provides connectivity to all NHS organisations in England, as well as non- NHS sites providing NHS care, ensuring a reliable service at every site where NHS services are delivered or managed. Via N3 Voice Services it makes best value IP telephony services available to all NHS organisations including GPs. N3 Managed Video Conferencing services are also available supporting the full range of devices from large VC dedicated rooms to desktop webcams which affords the opportunity for significant cost saving and productivity benefits for subscribed users via the suite of collaboration tools. N3 is a fully managed IP network with over 46,000 connections (consisting of over 15,000 physical, 11,500 aggregator and 19,500 VPN Token connections) which is contracted to be available 24hrs, 7days a week for 365 days per year. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | OGC Gateway 5 Review undertaken July 2012 |
| Start date | 2004-02-19 |
| End date | 2014-03-31 |
| Schedule text | Programme is on schedule to end as per the current approved business case |
| Baseline | £114.31m |
| Forecast | £120.34m |
| Variance | 5.27% |
| Variance text: | The variance between the two figures is due mainly to GPNGA movements. The project spend slipped from 11-12 to 12-13 the original EBC only had £5m for this project the forecast shown in the GMPP was £20m. Re-evaluation of the spend profile was carried out for the budget request and this accounts for the rest of the delta. |
| Whole Life Cost | £371.89m |
| WLCost text: | WLC is Gov Spend There is no Non Gov Spend in this business case |
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| Sourcefile | DH_2013.csv |
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