2020 Report details for project: Atlas Programme
| Project name | Atlas Programme - there are 2 reports for this project: 2019, 2020 |
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| Organisation | FCO (D13 ) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2020 (data is from September 2019) |
| Category | ICT - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | To support the FCO's Diplomacy 20:20 agenda and the Government's shared services strategy through the implementation of a modern Oracle Cloud based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber/Red |
| DCA text: | The IPA Delivery Confidence Assessment (DCA) rating at Q2 1920 (30th September 2019) was Amber/Red, which has declined since last year's Q2 1819 Amber, due primarily to the following factors; - Covid-19 caused wide disruption , forcing the team to invoke it's Business Continuity plan and work from home, during a crucial stage in the development of our first system Proof of Concept build. The team have continued to progress design and development, despite the additional challenges - Timescales for approving the Outline Business Case were delayed, causing late on-boarding of our Design and Assurance Partner and impacted our go to market timelines for engaging a Delivery Partner Since the Q2 1920 (30th September 2019) Amber/Red IPA DCA, the following non-project operating environment activities have impacted the original Q2 IPA DCA; - Late approval of the Outline Business Case caused a delay to on-boarding our Design and Assurance Partner, resulting in late start of our first stage of system build. - COVID-19 has required the programme to re-plan with the whole team based off-site and wider PAG commitment waning as they also respond to COVID-19 challenges. The team have adapted well to new ways of working, and some optimisations are being experienced following initial "shock". Since the Q2 1920 (30th September 2019) Amber/Red IPA DCA, the following primary project actions have impacted the original Q2 IPA DCA; - Remote ways of working, secure onboarding of suppliers and wider programme team, and the technology required to enable team remote working have all been actioned and is now the "new normal". - Escalation to Atlas Steering Group to agree an optimised FBC internal approval path to avoid a protracted series of evaluations over the summer period has been noted and a provisional way forward agreed. |
| Start date | 2016-05-01 |
| End date | 2021-10-31 |
| Schedule text | The scheduled baseline project end date at Q2 1920 (30th September 2019) is 31/10/21, has lengthened by 488 days since last year's Q2 1819 date of 30/06/20, due primarily to the following factors; - The programme underwent a full review. This resulted in a radical change to approach, removing previous SI, bolstering of the FCO programme team with specialist resources and generated a revised Outline Business Case that was approved by the FCO, CO and Treasury in Nov-2020 to onboard a new delivery partner. - The programme's base assumptions that re-use of material from the Home Office Metis Programme proved over stated when assessed against the operational needs of the FCO, FCOS, PAGs and overseas government. Since the Q2 1920 (30th September 2019) baseline project end date of 31/10/21, the following primary project actions have impacted the original Q2 baseline project end date; - We have maximised Home Office Metis reuse, and significantly augmented this with a full design exercise, driving out a full Proof of Concept for overseas government. - The programme has established a significantly stronger client side function better prepared to manage delivery of multiple suppliers across a multi tenancy model. |
| Baseline | £13.28m |
| Forecast | £13.28m |
| Variance | None% |
| Variance text: | Budget variance less than 5% |
| Whole Life Cost | £93.83m |
| WLCost text: | The baseline Whole Life Cost at Q2 1920 (30th September 2019) is £93.83m, has increased by £72.03m since last year's Q2 1819 (£m) baseline Whole Life Cost of £21.80m, due primarily to the following factors; - The baseline Whole Life Cost as reported at the end of financial year 2019-20 (31st of March 2020) is £93.7m. A reduction of £0.1m due to non utilisation of costed risk allocated to programme spend in the financial year. |
| Notes1: | None |
| Notes2: | |
| Sourcefile | IPA_2020.csv |
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