2.28 A number of other changes were made to the contract. The Department agreed to pay a total of £4 million if certain deliverables were made before 30 June 2000, enabling the start of the introduction of the office automation service (infrastructure) by October 2000. In addition, the Department would pay £5 million on delivery of the final version of the functional specification following acceptance of the core application at the first site in Suffolk in July 2001; £10 million on acceptance of the core application at Suffolk in return for the title to the intellectual property rights; and £3 million on the release of software principally for the Welsh language. In exchange for these extra payments the Department negotiated a reduction in service charges. The payment rate of £2.12 per weighted caseload a year was reduced to £1.40 for the office automation service and to £1.97 for when the office automation and core application were both in service.