Report for November 2019

Report Date

November 2019

Report for November 2019 by Ken Miller

Achievements in Last Period:

Work Stream (A)

• A number conference calls held between Finance and Arkk to identify issues and work towards resolution.
• Dual run of VAT return via For:sight for last quarters VAT return completed and figures reconciled.  Run did require attention at several points.  

Work Stream (B)

• Confirmation received that project updates now completed and signed off in Live.

Issues:

• (A) New legal contact Esther Duncan has been contacted regarding completion of PoC and the probable procurement to follow.  
• (A) There remains a small manual element to the MTD process which may make it non MTD compliant.  In particular the figures for boxes 2 and 9 of the VAT return will need to be manually submitted with the assistance of the For:sight tool.  This risk has raised with the UoE Tax Office and they have agreed that they are the owner of this risk.
• (R)The current Project Manager is overallocated and current contract ends before the project is likely to end

Next Steps:

Work Stream (A)

• End-to-end Dual run of VAT return via For:sight for last quarters VAT return to be carried out.  
• Progress of PoC phase of project through to sign off.
• DPIA to be addressed once UAT has been signed off.
• Clarify issues F Eardley has raised regarding the Arkk SLA.

Work Stream (B)

• Carry out review of post go live issues and lesson's learned.

Work Stream (A & B)

• Project Closure

Milestones:

To be reviewed