County Government
This is a real-life case study of how Green Technology Services successfully saved the county government & taxpayers approximately $660,000.
IT Cost Comparison
Project Details
Business: County Government
Location: Salem, NJ
Website: salemcountynj.gov
Services: Managed Services, Networking, Website Design
County-Run IT Department
Three Full-Time County Employees:
- Network Administrator
- Technical Support Specialist
- Data Processing Programmer
PLUS Temporary IT Contractors when required
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Cost of Full-Time Employees: $297,757
- Salaries – 179,703
- Overtime – 2,378
- Taxes – 15,095
- Pension – 21,851
- Workers Comp – 6,289
- Medical – 59,233
- Training (1) – 12,432
- Mileage – 776
Cost of Temporary Staffing (2013): $77,127
- Protocol Temporary Staff – $53,885
- PC Networks Temporary Staff – $14,327
- JHS Web Design – $8,915
Other Office & Phone Operating Expenses: $1,640
TOTAL COST OF COUNTY-RUN IT DEPARTMENT: $376,524
Green Tech Services Outsourcing
Eleven GTS Team Members:
- Industry Certified Network Techs and Engineers
- Web Designer / Multimedia Specialist
- Telecom Engineers
- Network Security Specialists
Other services / amenities included in contract:
- 24/7 Availability
- On Site Staffing
- Helpdesk
- Web Design and Maintenance
- Information Technology Management Services
- Network Monitoring
- Performance Monitoring
- Security Patch Management
- Risk Analysis
- License Management
- Antivirus Software
TOTAL COST OF OUTSOURCING TO GREEN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES: $266,600.00
Savings so far: $109,924
Additional Project Savings:
Upgrade Project – Network Infrastructure and 204 new PCs and Laptops
County IT Estimate: $1.75 million
Outsourced IT Vendor: $1.2 million
Additional Savings $550,000.00
TOTAL TAXPAYER SAVINGS:
$659,924