Nova Scotia Power filed a work order application seeking UARB approval for a $1,016,000 capital expenditure to relicense its Oracle Outage Management System database under a processor-based licensing model.

M03717 · CI# 34843 - P-128.10 - NSPI WO - Oracle NLA License - $1,016,000ACE Amount ($1,010,430) - Zero dollars spent to date

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NSPI submitted CI# 34843 (dated November 24, 2010) requesting approval for a $1,016,000 capital expenditure to replace a concurrent-user Oracle Network License Agreement (NLA) capped at 200 users with a processor-based license for its mission-critical Asset Management Outage Management System (OMS) database.
The justification centres on compliance risk: Oracle reserves the right to audit NSPI's databases, and a finding of non-compliance could result in financial penalties or forced re-licensing charges, making relicensing urgent.
The project budget is split between $976,000 for application software (Account 034) and $40,000 for consulting (Account 028), with a $5,570 variance above the ACE 2010 estimate of $1,010,430 attributable to a revised cost estimate post-ACE submission.
In a prior IR response (IR-GP5, filed March 5, 2010), NSPI defended capitalizing the license fee rather than expensing it as an operating cost, citing its Accounting Policy Section 6000 on the grounds that the license increases the capacity of an existing asset and provides multi-year benefit.
Pages 8–19 of the work order document have been removed due to Confidentiality, limiting full visibility into supporting technical and vendor documentation.

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