Decision details

CKAN Open Data Portal for the Transparency Project

Decision Maker: Head of Information Management

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

A pivotal deliverable of the Transparency Project is to implement a dedicated portal to publish the Council’s Open Data sets.

The Open Knowledge Foundation CKAN is the EU and UK Governments official open data portal provider; a trusted Open Source portal developer, this means the CKAN portal is free and can be used without any license fees. 

This application is to procure CKAN’s specialist services, to design and deploy a portal data store for the Council, provide hosting arrangements and technical training.  The expected cost, including external hosting is expected to be £40,950.

Publication date: 14/04/2014

Date of decision: 11/04/2014

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