4903.2 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT COSTS
(Revised 09/08)
By January 31 of each year, or as instructed by the OCIO, each agency is required to summarize its actual and projected information technology costs for the past year, current year, and budget year in a format required by the OCIO. See SIMM Section 55. Information technology is defined as all electronic technology systems and services, automated information storage and retrieval, telecommunications which include voice, video, and data communications, requisite systems control, simulation, and electronic commerce.
Agency telecommunications costs are to be summarized separately from all other information technology costs. Thus, two cost summaries are required:
- A Summary of Data Processing Costs–Which must include all information technology costs except those for telecommunications; and
- A Summary of Telecommunications Costs–For the purposes of the summaries, telecommunications activities include voice and data communications, the transmission or reception of signals, writing, sounds, or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, light beam, or any other electromagnetic means. The costs of all other information technology activities are to be included in the data processing summary.
