CAM equipment bid decisions 2004

Requestor Request Quantity Location Bid exc VAT Bid inc VAT Rationale Notes Priority Funds allocated Cum. total % Cumul %
£0 0 £360,000
Tom O'Doherty 5 Sony DCR TVR60 videocams 5 LG0.14c £5,750 £6,756 Replacement for original batch of 5 VideoCams,now over 4 years old & wearing out.One already declared redundant as beyond economic repair. 9 £6,756 £6,756 1.88% 1.88%
Tony Kalus 10 x licences for Easy DVD (ROXIO) copying software 10 M2.4 £330 £388 Better than Nero because it includes easy authoring software interface 9 £388 £7,144 0.11% 1.98%
Ahmed Latif Studio equipment (musical instruments) Many Wiltshire Building £11,891 £13,972 For core music units 1X Drumkit with Zildjian cybals £1000
1X Otari MTR 90 with looms £3000
1X Set of Zildjian cymbals for old drumkit £700
1X new skins for old drumkit £120
14X sets of guitar strings £119
2X set of bass strings £40
2X Electric guitars £350 for both
1X Nylon Acoustic guitar £200
1X Bass guitar £200
1X AKG C12VR microphone £2200
1X Acoustic Guitar £650
1X small microphone stand £30
4X large microphone stands £130
3X microphone shockmounts £200
1X pair of congas £500
1X Hammond BX3 (or similar) drawbar organ £800
2X box of 10 EXEBYTE tapes £50
50X blank CD recordables £50
Repair 3 existing guitar amplifiers £300
4X headphones £350
1X headphone amplifier £300
Full Chromatic Xylophone  £322
Alto Diatonic Xylophone  £109
Alto Chromatic Glockenspiel £82
1Yamaha F 310acoustic steel string guitar £72
2 Yamaha PSR 170 keyboards total £134
Drum Brushes £8
8 £13,972 £21,116 3.88% 5.87%
Alex Gegov MATLAB Fuzzy Logic Toolbox 35 tbd £455 £535 for BSc Intelligent Systems 8 £535 £21,651 0.15% 6.01%
Ivan Jordanov 25 licences for MATLAB and MATLAB Neural Networks Toolbox and MATLAB Genetic Algorithms (GA) and DS Toolbox 25 tbd £1,375 £1,616 The software is going to be used for the labs/practicals of  "Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms" unit, which will start September 2004. I have taught this module at De Montfort Uni and found NN Toolbox to be very useful. It made the difference with previous years, when Matlab NN Toolbox was not used, in terms of student advancement and appreciations of this challenging for them unit. Matlab is currently releasing brand new GA Toolbox, which I am sure, will be as helpful and useful as the NN one. labs/practicals of  "Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms" unit 8 £1,616 £23,266 0.45% 6.46%
Jim.Briggs PCs for admin staff 10 Admin £10,000 £11,750 Replace all remaining admin machines with processors under 2.4GHz and memory under 1GB 8 £11,750 £35,016 3.26% 9.73%
Jim.Briggs LCD monitors for admin staff 2 Admin £460 £541 Complete monitor replacement program MandyS and Shirley 8 £541 £35,557 0.15% 9.88%
Steve.Broadbent 38 new PCs: 2.8GHz 1GB RAM 40 GB HDD new monitor 38 M4.2 £36,860 £43,311 Rolling replacement programme 8 £43,311 £78,867 12.03% 21.91%
Steve.Broadbent 22 new PCs: 2.8GHz 1GB RAM 40 GB HDD new monitor 22 M4.1 £21,340 £25,075 Rolling replacement programme Upgrade slowest lab in Merc 8 £25,075 £103,942 6.97% 28.87%
Steve.Broadbent 20 new PCs: 2.8GHz 1GB RAM 40 GB HDD new monitor 20 M4.4 £19,400 £22,795 Rolling replacement programme 8 £22,795 £126,737 6.33% 35.20%
Steve.Broadbent 5 new network servers: 3.2GHz 2GB DVD New monitor 5 M3.1 £7,200 £8,460 The servers to be replaced are at least 4 years old 8 £8,460 £135,197 2.35% 37.55%
Steve.Broadbent 40 memory upgrades to 1GB 40 M2.2 £4,400 £5,170 Upgrade performance 8 £5,170 £140,367 1.44% 38.99%
Steve.Broadbent 38 memory upgrades to 1GB 38 M3.3 £4,180 £4,912 Upgrade performance 8 £4,912 £145,278 1.36% 40.36%
Steve.Broadbent 10 memory upgrades to 2GB 10 M2.4 £2,420 £2,844 Upgrade performance 8 £2,844 £148,122 0.79% 41.14%
Steve.Broadbent 36 memory upgrades 36 M4.2 £0 £0 Use old 512MB chips 8 £0 £148,122 0.00% 41.14%
Steve.Broadbent 27 memory upgrades to 1GB 27 M3.1 £0 £0 Use old 512MB chips 8 £0 £148,122 0.00% 41.14%
Steve.Broadbent 4 memory upgrades to 1GB 4 M2.3 £0 £0 Use old 512MB chips 8 £0 £148,122 0.00% 41.14%
Tom O'Doherty 10 TVs 10 LG0.14c £1,400 £1,645 Replacement for existing TV/VCRs which are now over 4 years old & wearing out.Also extends provision to one unit per workstation. 8 £1,645 £149,767 0.46% 41.60%
Claire Sambrook Mac lab: music machines: Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8GHz 512MB RAM 160GB HDD DVD-R/CD-RW 17in flat panel display (1 with 20in display) 3 years AppleCare Protection Plan 17 Mac Lab £30,550 £35,896 Mac lab will provide a Virtual Studio for music students and broaden the experience of students on graphics courses 7 £35,896 £185,663 9.97% 51.57%
Claire Sambrook Mac server: Xserve G5 2GHz 1GB RAM 160GB HDD + RAID + Support 1 Mac Lab £9,919 £11,655 7 £11,655 £197,318 3.24% 54.81%
Claire Sambrook Mac lab: graphics machines: iMac 1.25GHz 512MB RAM 80GB HDD DVD-R/CD-RW 20in flat 3 years AppleCare Protection Plan 5 Mac Lab £7,066 £8,302 7 £8,302 £205,620 2.31% 57.12%
Claire Sambrook Mac maintenance contract 1 Mac Lab £6,332 £7,440 7 £7,440 £213,060 2.07% 59.18%
Claire Sambrook Networking and cabinets 1 Mac Lab £4,719 £5,545 7 £5,545 £218,605 1.54% 60.72%
Claire Sambrook Specialist installation Xserve 6 Mac Lab £4,200 £4,935 7 £4,935 £223,540 1.37% 62.09%
Claire Sambrook eMagic Logic Platinum Educational 11 Mac Lab £3,735 £4,389 7 £4,389 £227,929 1.22% 63.31%
Claire Sambrook Digidesign Mbox USB Audio interface 11 Mac Lab £3,509 £4,123 7 £4,123 £232,052 1.15% 64.46%
Claire Sambrook Memory upgrades for Mac lab (17 x 1GB; 5 x 512MB) 22 Mac Lab £3,194 £3,753 7 £3,753 £235,805 1.04% 65.50%
Claire Sambrook Shake 11 Mac Lab £2,830 £3,325 7 £3,325 £239,130 0.92% 66.43%
Claire Sambrook Specialist installation Video 4 Mac Lab £2,800 £3,290 7 £3,290 £242,420 0.91% 67.34%
Claire Sambrook Apple Final Cut licence + doc + media 11 Mac Lab £2,357 £2,769 7 £2,769 £245,189 0.77% 68.11%
Claire Sambrook Sony video deck 1 Mac Lab £2,221 £2,609 7 £2,609 £247,798 0.72% 68.83%
Claire Sambrook Roland PCR-50 Realtime Controller Keyboard 11 Mac Lab £1,749 £2,055 7 £2,055 £249,853 0.57% 69.40%
Claire Sambrook Final Cut Pro Essentials 3 Mac Lab £1,350 £1,586 7 £1,586 £251,439 0.44% 69.84%
Claire Sambrook Adobe Photoshop CS + doc + media 10 Mac Lab £1,334 £1,568 7 £1,568 £253,007 0.44% 70.28%
Claire Sambrook Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 + doc + media 5 Mac Lab £361 £424 7 £424 £253,431 0.12% 70.40%
Liz Dobson Pro tools: Accel 2 card and software; Hardware192 interface; Mixing desk 1 Wiltshire Building £16,700 £19,623 For core music units 7 £19,623 £273,054 5.45% 75.85%
Liz Dobson Mac G5: Dual 2GHZ 1GB RAM 160GB HDD incl dual monitor 1 Wiltshire Building £3,125 £3,672 For core music units 7 £3,672 £276,726 1.02% 76.87%
Liz Dobson Reaktor 4 software 12 M2.2 ? £2,859 £3,360 For core music units 7 £3,360 £280,086 0.93% 77.80%
Liz Dobson Microphone - Neumann U87 incl cradle 1 Wiltshire Building £2,000 £2,350 For core music units 7 £2,350 £282,436 0.65% 78.45%
Liz Dobson Microphones (various) 11 Wiltshire Building £1,426 £1,676 For core music units 7 £1,676 £284,111 0.47% 78.92%
Liz Dobson Yamaha P90 Stage piano 1 Wiltshire Building £720 £846 For core music units 7 £846 £284,957 0.24% 79.15%
Liz Dobson Tascam DA-40 DAT recorder 1 Wiltshire Building £710 £834 For core music units 7 £834 £285,791 0.23% 79.39%
Liz Dobson Cabling, loom, boxes 1 Wiltshire Building £700 £823 For core music units 7 £823 £286,614 0.23% 79.61%
Liz Dobson Studio monitors (Mackie HR624) 2 Wiltshire Building £660 £776 For core music units 7 £776 £287,389 0.22% 79.83%
Liz Dobson Guitar 'pod' 1 Wiltshire Building £200 £235 For core music units 7 £235 £287,624 0.07% 79.90%
Liz Dobson Fender Frontman 25R Amp 1 Wiltshire Building £129 £152 For core music units 7 £152 £287,776 0.04% 79.94%
Tom O'Doherty Gun microphones 5 LG0.14c £325 £382 Internal microphone on VideoCams not able to capture sound faithfully under all conditions. 7 £382 £288,158 0.11% 80.04%
Tom O'Doherty LaCie P3 160 Gb 7200 rpm external Firewire Hard Drive 1 LG0.14c £130 £153 To facilitate transfer of student data between Video Editing (non-networked) and general multimedia workstations. 7 £153 £288,311 0.04% 80.09%
Tony Kalus 25 licences for AlienBrain 25 LG £3,175 £3,731 For core games units and others Recurrent £625 in subsequent years 7 £3,731 £292,041 1.04% 81.12%
Tony Kalus 10 x Playstation2 development kits to run under Linux 10 M3.2 £2,500 £2,938 For core games units and others 7 £2,938 £294,979 0.82% 81.94%
Tony Kalus 10 x Nokia 6600 phones 10 BK pool £2,500 £2,938 Separate from Carl's bid 7 £2,938 £297,916 0.82% 82.75%
Tony Kalus AOS Jack software 1 Any suitable lab £1,400 £1,645 For CSSE MSc agent option Annual report on usage required as condition of licence 7 £1,645 £299,561 0.46% 83.21%
Ed.Kopinski Server: Dell PowerEdge 2600 3GHz 2GB RAM 4x146GB HDD + tape backup 1 LG £7,767 £9,126 To support video editing labs 6 £9,126 £308,688 2.54% 85.75%
Emma.Duke-Williams Upgrade Authorware to v7 38 M2.2 £4,788 £5,626 Keep up to date 6 £5,626 £314,313 1.56% 87.31%
Robert Topp 20 licences for Perfect Developer 20 tbd £1,200 £1,410 to support teaching of formal methods. This software would be used on at least 3 undergraduate units (FODV1, FODV2 and FODV3) and a post graduate unit (FORMP) by myself and Alex Gegov. upgrade to the existing Perfect Developer software that we have run for the past 2 years 6 £1,410 £315,723 0.39% 87.70%
Steve.Broadbent 40 new multimedia PCs: 2.8GHz 1GB RAM 120 GB HDD 40 M3.4 £53,900 £63,333 Rolling replacement programme New multimedia lab 6 £63,333 £379,056 17.59% 105.29%
Steve.Broadbent Director MX 2004 38 M3.4 £5,966 £7,010 New multimedia lab 6 £7,010 £386,066 1.95% 107.24%
Steve.Broadbent Authorware 7 38 M3.4 £4,788 £5,626 New multimedia lab 6 £5,626 £391,692 1.56% 108.80%
Steve.Broadbent 3D Studio Max (30 user pack) 1 M3.4 £3,500 £4,113 New multimedia lab 6 £4,113 £395,804 1.14% 109.95%
Steve.Broadbent Adobe Photoshop 7.0 38 M3.4 £3,230 £3,795 New multimedia lab 6 £3,795 £399,600 1.05% 111.00%
Steve.Broadbent Adobe Premier 6.5 38 M3.4 £2,774 £3,259 New multimedia lab 6 £3,259 £402,859 0.91% 111.91%
Steve.Broadbent Dreamweaver MX 2004 38 M3.4 £1,862 £2,188 New multimedia lab 6 £2,188 £405,047 0.61% 112.51%
Steve.Broadbent Flash MX 2004 38 M3.4 £1,862 £2,188 New multimedia lab 6 £2,188 £407,235 0.61% 113.12%
Steve.Broadbent Nero 6 38 M3.4 £988 £1,161 New multimedia lab 6 £1,161 £408,396 0.32% 113.44%
Steve.Broadbent Adobe Photoshop 7.0 38 M3.3 £3,230 £3,795 Keep up to date 5 £3,795 £412,191 1.05% 114.50%
Terry.King Upgrade Director to MX 2004 40 LG0.14 £6,280 £7,379 Keep up to date 5 £7,379 £419,570 2.05% 116.55%
Terry.King Upgrade Director to MX 2004 38 M2.2 £5,966 £7,010 Keep up to date 5 £7,010 £426,580 1.95% 118.49%
Terry.King Upgrade Photoshop to CS 40 LG0.14 £3,400 £3,995 Keep up to date 5 £3,995 £430,575 1.11% 119.60%
Terry.King Upgrade Photoshop to CS 38 M2.2 £3,230 £3,795 Keep up to date 5 £3,795 £434,370 1.05% 120.66%
Terry.King Upgrade Flash to Flash MX 2004 40 LG0.14 £1,960 £2,303 Keep up to date 5 £2,303 £436,673 0.64% 121.30%
Terry.King Upgrade Dreamweaver to MX 2004 40 LG.014 £1,960 £2,303 Keep up to date 5 £2,303 £438,976 0.64% 121.94%
Terry.King Upgrade Dreamweaver to MX 2004 38 M3.3 £1,862 £2,188 Keep up to date 5 £2,188 £441,164 0.61% 122.55%
Terry.King Upgrade Flash to Flash MX 2004 38 M3.3 £1,862 £2,188 Keep up to date 5 £2,188 £443,352 0.61% 123.15%
Terry.King Upgrade Dreamweaver to MX 2004 38 M2.2 £1,862 £2,188 Keep up to date 5 £2,188 £445,540 0.61% 123.76%
Terry.King Upgrade Flash to Flash MX 2004 38 M2.2 £1,862 £2,188 Keep up to date 5 £2,188 £447,728 0.61% 124.37%
Brett.Stevens Upgrade to 3ds Max 6 (campus agreement) 40 M3.3 £3,662 £4,302 Keep up to date plus £3000 pa recurrent 4 £4,302 £452,030 1.20% 125.56%
Brett.Stevens Upgrade to 3ds Max 6 (campus agreement) 40 M2.2 £3,662 £4,302 Keep up to date plus £3000 pa recurrent 4 £4,302 £456,333 1.20% 126.76%
Brett.Stevens Upgrade to 3ds Max 6 (campus agreement) 40 LG0.14 £3,662 £4,302 Keep up to date plus £3000 pa recurrent 4 £4,302 £460,635 1.20% 127.95%
Carl Adams 10 smart phones 10 BT pool £3,000 £3,525 for new mobile applications development (MAD1) unit next year 3 £3,525 £464,160 0.98% 128.93%
Steve.Broadbent Maya 4 M3.4 £10,680 £12,549 Compatability with ADM 3 £12,549 £476,709 3.49% 132.42%
Steve.Broadbent Adobe After Effects 6.0 standard 38 M3.4 £3,344 £3,929 Compatability with ADM 3 £3,929 £480,638 1.09% 133.51%
Steve.Broadbent Illustrator CS 38 M3.4 £1,102 £1,295 Compatability with ADM 3 £1,295 £481,933 0.36% 133.87%
Terry.King Upgrade Dreamweaver to MX 2004 40 AG0.29 & AG0.30 £1,960 £2,303 Keep up to date 3 £2,303 £484,236 0.64% 134.51%
Tony Kalus 20 licences for Maya 5.01 20 Any multimedia lab £4,660 £5,476 For core animation units Recurrent 2660 in subsequent years 3 £5,476 £489,712 1.52% 136.03%
Tony Kalus 20 x Adobe After Effects v6.0 Professional 20 Any multimedia lab £2,662 £3,128 For core digital media units 3 £3,128 £492,839 0.87% 136.90%
Tony Kalus 20 copies of Combustion 3 20 Any multimedia lab £2,145 £2,520 For core animation units 3 £2,520 £495,360 0.70% 137.60%
Tony Kalus 20 x Illustrator CS 20 Any multimedia lab £602 £707 For core digital media units 3 £707 £496,067 0.20% 137.80%
Alison.White Install data projector facilities 1 M5.3 £6,500 £7,638 2 £7,638 £503,705 2.12% 139.92%
Alison.White Install data projector facilities 1 M5.1 £6,500 £7,638 2 £7,638 £511,342 2.12% 142.04%
Steve.Broadbent 20 new monitors 20 M3.2 £4,600 £5,405 2 £5,405 £516,747 1.50% 143.54%
Steve.Broadbent 20 ex LG machines 20 M3.2 £0 £0 ex LG 2 £0 £516,747 0.00% 143.54%
Tom O'Doherty 40 PCs: 2.8GHz 1Gb RAM 120Gb HDD 40 LG0.14a/b £40,000 £47,000 Existing equipment to be transferred to Mercantile House labs if bid is approved. 2 £47,000 £563,747 13.06% 156.60%
Tom O'Doherty 10 PCs: 2.8GHz 1GB RAM 240 GB HDD dual 19in LCD monitors 10 LG0.14c £34,400 £40,420 Proposed hardware increases workstations by 2 & includes dual 19" LCD monitors to replace existing single 19" CRT monitors 2 £40,420 £604,167 11.23% 167.82%
Alison.White Install data projector facilities 1 M5.2 £6,500 £7,638 Lower priority 1 £7,638 £611,805 2.12% 169.95%
Emma.Duke-Williams Upgrade Flash to Flash Pro MX 2004 40 LG0.14 £3,160 £3,713 The Pro version would be nice, as you can do a lot with it that you can't do with regular - however from a ££ point of view then the regular might be preferable 1 £3,713 £615,518 1.03% 170.98%
Emma.Duke-Williams Upgrade Flash to Flash Pro MX 2004 38 M3.3 £3,002 £3,527 The Pro version would be nice, as you can do a lot with it that you can't do with regular - however from a ££ point of view then the regular might be preferable 1 £3,527 £619,045 0.98% 171.96%
Emma.Duke-Williams Upgrade Flash to Flash Pro MX 2004 38 M2.2 £3,002 £3,527 The Pro version would be nice, as you can do a lot with it that you can't do with regular - however from a ££ point of view then the regular might be preferable 1 £3,527 £622,572 0.98% 172.94%
Richard Healey Book scanner 1 tbd £15,000 £17,625 Creating electronic book resources 1 £17,625 £640,197 4.90% 177.83%
Roger Beresford Opera (site licence) 1 Site £700 £823 This would give all students on web development units access to an alternative to IE or the very elderly Netscape.  It has a number of features - including a rather strict interpretation of syntax - so useful for test purposes in particular.  Units would include IS.WUCMI, ID.WDIEP, your units, MM.WAILIFD, WAIIFH etc. 1 £823 £641,020 0.23% 178.06%
Steve.Broadbent Adobe Premier 6.5 38 M3.3 £2,774 £3,259 Keep up to date 1 £3,259 £644,279 0.91% 178.97%
Alison.White Move data projector from M4.3 to M4.1 1 M4.1 £500 £588 0 £0 £644,279 0.16% 178.97%
Brett.Stevens Upgrade to 3ds Max 6 + subscription 40 M3.3 £7,415 £8,713 Keep up to date plus £3000 pa recurrent 0 £0 £644,279 2.42% 178.97%
Brett.Stevens Upgrade to 3ds Max 6 + subscription 40 M2.2 £7,415 £8,713 Keep up to date plus £3000 pa recurrent 0 £0 £644,279 2.42% 178.97%
Brett.Stevens Upgrade to 3ds Max 6 + subscription 40 LG0.14 £7,415 £8,713 Keep up to date plus £3000 pa recurrent 0 £0 £644,279 2.42% 178.97%
Claire Sambrook Mac OS X Server Essentials 4 Day training course 1 Mac Lab £1,199 £1,409 0 £0 £644,279 0.39% 178.97%
Claire Sambrook Mac OS X Helpdesk Essentials 3 Day training course 1 Mac Lab £899 £1,056 0 £0 £644,279 0.29% 178.97%
Claire Sambrook Reactor Educational Licences 0 Mac Lab £0 £0 Duplicated 0 £0 £644,279 0.00% 178.97%
Nobody specific Upgrade Adobe Premiere to 7.0 0 LG0.14c £0 £0 Keep up to date Only compatible with Windows XP 0 £0 £644,279 0.00% 178.97%
187.07%