2.27 The Department and ICL agreed that the infrastructure and office automation service would be delivered nine months ahead of the scheduled implementation of the core application at each site. The Department gained two benefits from the earlier roll-out of the infrastructure. First, the core application, once developed and accepted, could be rolled out more quickly nationally as the infrastructure would already be in place. Secondly, Magistrates' Courts Committees would benefit earlier from support for basic office functions, for example, e-mail with other courts and agencies within the criminal justice system. The advantage to ICL was that it would receive income under the deal at an earlier date. The incentive delivery payments were also split between the delivery of the infrastructure and the core application. ICL would receive 80 per cent of the original delivery charge when the infrastructure was delivered and the remaining 20 per cent when the core application was delivered. The earlier delivery of the infrastructure increased the cost of the contract by a further £19 million.