Northgate Information Systems has been awarded a place on the IT Managed Services framework by Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for UK public services, giving public sector organisations access to a range of Northgate’s services from remote access to fully-managed IT services. Northgate had already been given a place on Buying Solutions’ Applications Solutions…
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City West and Liverpool Mutual launch procurement partnership
City West Housing Trust and Liverpool Mutual Homes have jointly created the 4Site Partnership to increase their combined buying power, resulting in reduced costs and improved services. Based around an OJEU-compliant tendering process and with the involvement of their tenants, City West and LMH have developed framework agreements for construction-related consultancy and project management services…
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i-Talent recruitment tool from ConsultCIH
The Chartered Institute of Housing’s consultancy service, ConsultCIH, has unveiled a free web-based recruitment tool. i-Talent allows housing providers to manage the complete recruitment process, from the decision to fill a vacancy through to making the appointment with a full online application process and candidate tracking. The new system is based on based on Recruit…
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Rays of sunshine at Halton Housing Trust
Halton Housing Trust has revolutionised the work-life balance of its staff with the introduction of virtual desktop technology that allows them to work wherever they have access to the internet. Halton Housing’s new infrastructure is based on Sun Ray zero-client devices which have been installed on every desk in the organisation and integrate with its…
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Beating the Budget
On 22 June 2010, Chancellor George Osborne made his first budget speech to the House of Commons in which he pledged to ‘balance the books’ by 2016, slashing a massive £11 billion from the annual public expenditure bill, with £1.8 billion being earmarked for savings in social housing in this parliamentary term alone. I think…
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Sharing map data
Housing managers often face a costly and time-consuming task when sharing licensed mapping data with their contractors. Now, geographical web services can help keep the process both quick and legal. Housing providers have contracts with all manner of suppliers including grounds maintenance firms, architects, surveyors, engineers, planners and environmental consultants, and geographic information is an…
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