Liverpool City Council chooses Tribal for new asset management system to manage its education and co

Liverpool City Council, the fifth largest city in England, has chosen a fully integrated single solution from Tribal for the management of its £1bn land and property assets

[ClickPress, Mon Jul 09 2007] Liverpool City Council, the fifth largest city in England, has chosen a fully integrated single solution from Tribal for the management of its £1bn land and property assets. Due to go live from autumn 2007, the Enterprise asset management software will replace the disparate manual and electronic systems currently used and will enable the council to better make the efficiency savings crucial to meet the requirements of the Audit Commission, Gershon Review and Lyons Report.

Asset management software and services specialist Tribal has contracted with Liverpool Direct Ltd (LDL), a company formed by Liverpool City Council and BT. LDL predicts substantial savings from better, more structured management and maintenance of property. All land and property data will be consolidated into a single corporate system, resulting in more efficient data provision, better data quality, improved operational delivery and streamlined processes. The council will also use Enterprise for planned maintenance and capital works, allowing more preventative maintenance to be scheduled rather than more expensive emergency remedial work.

The council undertook a thorough formal procurement process which involved a detailed specification of requirements subject to market testing, questionnaires, presentations and site visits. Tribal was assessed and found to be the company and product most able to meet the council’s requirements for asset management. Brian Power, project manager for implementing the new system explains, “We were particularly impressed with the functionality of Enterprise, its intuitive feel, the tasks and reminders functions, the capacity to be web-enabled and its integrated modular structure.” Employees from all relevant departments will in the future be able to enter and access data and reports via Enterprise on their web browser.

Liverpool has chosen the core Enterprise system together with a number of modules.
Phil Sanders, Tribal’s sales director for local authority software, says: “As well as providing property report to support property performance indicator requirements, the system will be used as the operational tool to ensure the effective and efficient management of property assets. Key to delivering cost and efficiency savings is Enterprise’s projects module, which has extensive functionality for managing planned and reactive maintenance works as well as large capital and revenue programmes of work.”

The council has also chosen the ‘handheld’ module for PDAs, which is designed to help field workers address the legislative obligations in the health and safety arena, particularly for issues such as Legionella and fire risk assessment.

Enterprise will go live at Liverpool City Council from autumn 2007. The system is used by a raft of other local authorities including Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Westminster City Council and Sedgemoor District Council. Under constant development, new modules just announced include a reporting and analytical tool which will model spending scenarios across a 20 year period.
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Notes to editors:

1. Tribal is one of the most successful companies supporting the public sector in the UK today. We are a leading provider of professional support services, offering a range of consultancy and delivered services. Our turnover is over £250 million and we employ over 2,000 people from a regional network of offices. Our services are grouped into the following areas: consulting, technology, resourcing, education, property and communications.

2. Our services are provided to over 2,500 public sector organisations, predominantly within education; health and social care; local government, housing and regeneration; and central government. We work with 80 per cent of secondary schools; 75 per cent of local authorities; 95 per cent of further education colleges; 90 per cent of strategic health authorities; and 75 per cent of NHS trusts.

For further information, please contact the Tribal Group communications team on 01285 886020 or by email: media@tribalgroup.co.uk

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TA425 9 July 2007

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