Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 October 2024
511. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total cost of the contract for IT infrastructure for the National Children's Hospital recently awarded to a company (details supplied), in tabular form; and the impact on any costs arising from delays from the construction of the site to this contract. [38986/24]
View answerAn EU journal competitive dialogue tender process was completed and awarded in April 2023. The value of the contract is 31.6m euro as approved by the Children's Health Ireland (CHI) board. It provides for a range of hardware and software solutions which are fully managed including servers, storage, backup and recovery, PCs, printers, workstations on wheels and other mobile devices, as well as cyber security solutions.
Some are already deployed and are in use by CHI. Others such as PCs, printers and fully managed services are deferred waiting until the New Children's Hospital is ready to receive them.
There are no additional costs pending for this contract arising from changed completion dates of the construction of the New Children's Hospital. Expenditure on delivery of technology into the new hospital has been deferred, where possible, until such time as it is ready to receive it.
