"In a budget-busting leap from SAP to Oracle, West Sussex County Council is trebling its raid on capital assets such as buildings to fund its "transformational" ERP project. The current budget for the authority's long-running project is £27 million, more than ten times the £2.6 million originally budgeted when it started nearly seven years ago. Last year, The Register reported that the council was using money from selling off capital assets - including a former fire station - to fund the massively expanded budget."
"In documents released to a council committee last week, officials said they expected use of funds from the sell-off to triple in the current financial year compared to a year earlier. "Following a review of the 2025/26 plan, it is now currently projected that the council will use £12 million of this flexibility on qualifying transformation expenditure. However, the exact amount will not be known until the end of the financial year," the report to the Performance and Finance Scrutiny Committee said."
West Sussex County Council has increased its ERP project budget to £27 million, up from an original £2.6 million. The council is using capital receipts from selling assets, including a former fire station, and is projected to apply £12 million of such receipts to qualifying transformation expenditure in 2025/26. Capital receipts use tripled compared to the prior year, with £4 million used in 2024/25. The project expects around £10 million spending in 2026/27, funded by £4.3 million of capital receipts and £5.6 million from one-off IT infrastructure reserve funding. Capital receipts are normally for schools and infrastructure.
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