Top trumps!

I knew there was a good reason for going home (relatively) early yesterday:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: T.Aldous Huxtable
> Sent: 14 November 2006 18:15
> To: Kevin Musgrove, Mary Dunroamin
> Subject: FW: Corporate IT Budget for 2007/8 - Bids for Resources
> Importance: High
>
> Please could you look through this and then get together to discuss
> what we bid for say in 15 minutes ?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Binkie Huckaback
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2006 12:18
> To: T.Aldous Huxtable, Minnie Cooper, Jerome Munstead
> Subject: FW: Corporate IT Budget for 2007/8 - Bids for Resources
> Importance: High
>
>
> Note completed returns must be returned before 27 October
>
> Cheers
>
> Binkie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maurice Woodruff
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2006 12:29
> To: Heads of Service
> Subject: Corporate IT Budget for 2007/8 - Bids for Resources
> Importance: High
>
> All Heads of Service are invited to submit details of all IT Development
> proposals for 2007-8. These should included all bids for funding in
> relation to the IT Development budget, all externally funded IT
> developments and any in- house development requirements.
>
> For 2007-8 it has been agreed at that all bids for funding will be
> subject to evaluation based on a range of criteria which has been
> incorporated into a revised IT Development Request Form. These will be
> used to determine each scheme's ranking within the total bids received in
> respect of the IT Development Budget. For your assistance I have attached
> a copy of a report which summarises the Priority Outcomes and the link
> below can be used to see full details of the Priority Outcomes which
> forms part of the evaluation criteria.
>
> An IT Development Funding Request Form must be completed for each IT
> development proposal. A copy of the required form is attached.
>
> IT related bids only need to be submitted for the IT Development Programme
> and should not be duplicated within the Capital Investment Strategy Group
> programme. Previously unsuccessful bids, if still required, will need to
> be resubmitted and all costings updated. For the purposes of developing
> bids IT is defined as Hardware (PC's servers, hand held devices, printers,
> scanners and other similar peripheral devices), software
> (systems/applications) other associated costs for implementation including
> network upgrades, suppliers implementation, training etc.
>
> The timescale for the submission of bids has been brought forward to
> mirror the 'regular' capital programme.