Posted by Derry’s Newswire.com Tuesday January 17.
The Northern Ireland Assembly's new website cost a staggering £180,045 to develop.
The website at www.niassembly.gov.uk was launched at the end of last year.
Tne figure and details of expenditure were revealed exclusively to Newswire through a Freedom of Information Act today.
The Assembly spent £89,650 on developing the content management system, £66,995 on design and research and £23,400 on licensing. A statement from the Northern Ireland Assembly said the the contract for the provision of the content management system was awarded to Biznet IIS, using the content management system EpiServer.
The contract for the research and design of the website was awarded to Bluecube Interactive. The expenditure "covered research and benchmarking against equivalent and related parliamentary and government websites".
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