2021 Report details for project: CDS Northern Ireland Programme

Project name CDS Northern Ireland Programme - there is only one report for this project
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Report year 2021 (data is from March 2021)
Category ICT - see all reports for this category
Description: The CDS NI Programme was established to deliver the functional and non-functional changes necessary to enable the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) system to comply with the requirements of the NI Protocol at the end of the EU Transition Period. This included scaling the service to handle the anticipated increased volumes of customs declarations from 1 January 2021. As well as delivering the NI Protocol functionality, the Programme also included delivery of a small number of requirements which were outstanding from the Customs Declaration Service Minimum Viable Product ( CDS MVP) Programme, which made up less than 2% of the overall MVP delivery. Delivery of these requirements were essential for the service to support movement of goods into and out of Northern Ireland.
DCA (RAG) Amber
DCA text: The Infrastructure Project Authority's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating is Amber.This is primarily due to the following factors: All IT Delivery planned for December 20 was delivered and changes to Customs Declaration Service (CDS) to support the Northern Ireland Protocol were available on 31st December. All IT Delivery planned for Q4 has also been successfully delivered. Trader readiness for CDS although improving still remains low and the majority of Northern Ireland declarants are using the Trader Support Service to move their goods or current policy easements that have been put in place for a short period as a fallback. Where fallbacks are in place, work continues with developers and declarants to improve their CDS readiness to enable these easements to be withdrawn. Due to a restructure the CDS NI Programme is now going through Programme closure governance with appropriate oversight from the Infrastructure & Projects Authority.
Start date 2020-04-01
End date 2021-03-31
Schedule text The project end-date is 31 March 2021. This is primarily due to the following factors: Due to the Borders and Trade re-structure that came into effect on 08/02/2021, CDS Northern Ireland Programme no longer exists. CDS NI Project Management Office (PMO) has completed the Closure & Handover Report, Lessons Learned Report and all supporting documents to request that CDS NI formally closed down as a Programme. Formal programme closure is being progressed with appropriate oversight from the Infrastructure & Projects Authority.
Baseline £154.43m
Forecast £162.48m
Variance 5.00%
Variance text: The budget variance exceeds 5%. The variance was due to additional resource requirements to accommodate additional change requests.
Whole Life Cost £154.43m
WLCost text: The projects Baseline Whole Life Cost is £154.43m. This is primarily due to the following factors: The whole life costs (WLC) consisted of IT and resource costs. As the programme is now closing the WLC has been reviewed and is being revised.
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Sourcefile IPA_2021.csv

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