2021 Report details for project: Met Office Supercomputing 2020 Programme

Project name Met Office Supercomputing 2020 Programme - there are 3 reports for this project: 2021, 2022, 2023
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Organisation BEIS (D1198) - see all reports for this organisation
Report year 2021 (data is from March 2021)
Category ICT - see all reports for this category
Description: Delivering our future supercomputing capability through the procurement and installation of a replacement and increased supercomputing capacity to meet the contracted end of life timescales of our current systems. This will include: storage, observations networks, post-processing systems and services, tooling for data exploitation; delivery and support resources throughout the investment lifetime; data centre hosting, networking and security services.
DCA (RAG) Amber/Green
DCA text: The Infrastructure Project Authority's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating is Amber/Green.This is primarily due to the following factors: The programme continues to report as amber, due to the tight timescales and the complexity of the programme. The risk of delays are being mitigated where possible, we successfully passed the pre PIC panel in Dec and achieved FBC approval in Feruary 2021. Procurement process is nearing its final stages and the Programme has assigned a Programme Director and recruited a Programme Manager.
Start date 2018-01-01
End date 2032-08-11
Schedule text The project end-date is 11 August 2032. This is primarily due to the following factors: The programme is expected to sign the contract for this investment on 16-Apr-21 as scheduled.. The schedule is baselined at that point and at present there are no expected deviations.
Baseline £6.90m
Forecast £6.90m
Variance 0.00%
Variance text: The budget variance is less than or equal to 5%. There is currently no budget variance. Full term forecast now entered to reflect preferred bidder costings. Final Business Case approval confirmed so programme has been re-baselined to reflect this new approval.
Whole Life Cost £1,242.05m
WLCost text: The projects Baseline Whole Life Cost is £1242.05m. This is primarily due to the following factors: Overall programme costs are just over £20m higher than last submission reflecting the new approval. Cost increase is due to programme estimates across all aspects of the programme being higher than in original submissions, partly as a result of the winning bidders technical solution.
Notes1: None
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Sourcefile IPA_2021.csv

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