Ciadelta16

Let's get the ridicule out of the way first - Yes, I was mug enough to accept a new 3 year agreement with ESS at the beginning of 2024. We were never in position to move at that particular time, so made sense to accept the new 3 year contract and allow the school the time needed to make changes in 2026. After all the promises of subsequent year's price caps, this year's pre invoice agreement seems to have increased by 2 grand! I need to check a few things to clarify that I am not prematurely spitting blood. 1/ This is the first year that PPG have supplied the Pre invoice and as such, it is laid out differently with a breakdown of costs. ESS contracts in previous years have just had the one initial cost under '3 system area for maintained school Primary' - Would anyone be able to confirm that the 3 system area is referring to Sims, FMS and SimsNG? I need to know this to ascertain whether the new invoice is actually as extortionate as I think it is. 2/When I signed the new contract, I was under the impression that this NEW contract would replace the original one that I still had a year left to run, meaning that it would start 1st April 2024 and finish 1 April 2027. That would allow us this year and beginning of next to consider our next move. This new invoice though, is stating that my new 3 year contract starts April of this year and runs until 2028. This would mean that I signed up for a continuation contract which would become active once the original contract had finished. Not how I read it at all I now have my doubts that I have been a mug and totally misread this situation. If I have to see out the next 2 years of the 3, then so be it. Not a lot I can do now if that is the case! Anyhow, Thanks for your time and replies. Be gentle.

Good morning. I too have an EISNet network in Kent. We are in the process of transitioning over to Netsweeper so will keep an eye on this.