Bramble.cc Limited awarded yet another framework agreement by Government Procurement Service, this time for for Multifunctional Devices and Services

Hot on the heels of winning supplier status on all 4 lots of the G-Cloud framework, Bramble.cc is delighted to announce that it is now a successful supplier on the Multifunctional Devices and Services framework agreement (RM1599) from Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions).

Bramble.cc has been awarded supplier status on Lot 4 – Print Audit Services. Under this lot, Bramble.cc can provide its proven expertise in identifying print savings, and managing through the standardization and rationalisation of printers (including MFDs and related devices) to realized significant cost savings for clients.

The Framework Agreement is intended for use across all UK Public Sector Bodies – Central Government Departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies and Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies, Local Authorities and devolved administrations.

This success extends our service offering by adding to our existing portfolio of Government Procurement Service frameworks:

• ICT Consultancy & Delivery Services (RM 591) – 4 Lots
• Software Applications Solutions (RM 713) – 3 Lots
• Digital Continuity (RM 848) – 1 Lot
• Local Government Software Application Solutions (RM 865) – 8 Lots
• G-Cloud Services (RM 1557) – 4 Lots

This new framework will be launched on the 26th March 2012.

“This is a fantastic win that enhances our service offerings for Information Management. Our focus on ROI is particularly valuable to the Public Sector organisations at this time of identifying cashable savings and efficiency.” Chris Brice – Business Development Director, Bramble.cc.

About Government Procurement Service

Government Procurement Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, is the delivery arm of Government Procurement. It’s overall priority is to provide procurement savings for central government, health and all organisations across the UK public sector with a focus that delivers expert sourcing, category and centralised data management.

Through the centralisation, standardisation and aggregation of spend on common goods and services they deliver significant, sustainable cost reductions to Government. The value for money, commercial procurement solutions are fully EU compliant covering energy, property and facilities management, office solutions, professional services, travel, fleet, IT commodities (including telecommunications and networks) and eCommerce.

Contact: Government Procurement Service Press Office
Tel: 0345 410 2222
Email: pressoffice@buyingsolutions.gsi.gov.uk
Web: www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk

About Bramble.cc

Bramble.cc is the UK’s leading independent specialist in information management. Bramble.cc transforms organizations to focus properly on their information. This begins by re-designing and improving the structure of a client’s information, then implementing a programme of change to realign the business and its people with its information, involving technology as necessary. This management-of-change approach results in consistency, standardization, control and integration of information.

Our offerings are supplemented by our extensive partner network. We work with niche suppliers and SME organisations to provide ICT solutions across the Public Sector that meet the stringent requirements of ROI.

Please click here to go to our main Government Procurement Service (Buying Solutions) supplier page, which describes the frameworks and our services in more detail.

For more information on how Bramble.cc can help your business, email contact@bramble.cc or call 020 7735 0030.

Bramble.cc Limited awarded another framework agreement by Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions) for G-Cloud Services

Bramble.cc is delighted to announce that it is now a successful supplier on the G-Cloud Services framework agreement, reference RM1557, from Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions). Bramble.cc has been awarded supplier status on all 4 Lots, and has teamed up with a number of SME companies to provide 41 cloud services.

The Framework Agreement is intended for use across all UK Public Sector Bodies – Central Government Departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies and Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies, Local Authorities and devolved administrations.

CloudStore, the online appstore of the Government’s G-Cloud framework for cloud-based ICT services, offers the public sector a cheaper, quicker and more transparent way to procure the services they need, including email, word processing, system hosting, enterprise resource planning, electronic records management, customer relationship management, office productivity applications and specialist consulting services across 4 Lots:

• Lot 1: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Lot 2: Platform as a Service (Paas)
• Lot 3: Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services

The framework extends our service offering by adding to our existing frameworks we are on: Government Procurement Service framework agreements for ICT Consultancy & Delivery Services (RM 591), Software Applications Solutions (RM 713), Digital Continuity (RM 848) and Local Government Software Application Solutions (RM865). This new framework was launched on the 19th February 2012, and services will be available to be purchased via the CloudStore after the assurance and accreditation phase.

“This win extends our range and delivery model of service offerings into the Public Sector. Our partnership with other SMEs has once again enriched our solutions to cover a majority of the business requirements necessary for Public Sector Bodies to achieve efficiency and ROI.” Roland Cunningham – Partners Director, Bramble.cc.

About Government Procurement Service

Government Procurement Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, is the delivery arm of Government Procurement. It’s overall priority is to provide procurement savings for central government, health and all organisations across the UK public sector with a focus that delivers expert sourcing, category and centralised data management.

Through the centralisation, standardisation and aggregation of spend on common goods and services they deliver significant, sustainable cost reductions to Government. The value for money, commercial procurement solutions are fully EU compliant covering energy, property and facilities management, office solutions, professional services, travel, fleet, IT commodities (including telecommunications and networks) and eCommerce.

Contact: Government Procurement Service Press Office
Tel: 0345 410 2222
Email: pressoffice@buyingsolutions.gsi.gov.uk
Web: www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk

About Bramble.cc

Bramble.cc is the UK’s leading independent specialist in information management. Bramble.cc transforms organizations to focus properly on their information. This begins by re-designing and improving the structure of a client’s information, then implementing a programme of change to realign the business and its people with its information, involving technology as necessary. This management-of-change approach results in consistency, standardization, control and integration of information.

Our offerings are supplemented by our extensive partner network. We work with niche suppliers and SME organisations to provide ICT solutions across the Public Sector that meet the stringent requirements of ROI.

Please click here to go to our main Government Procurement Service (Buying Solutions) supplier page, which describes the frameworks and our services in more detail.

For more information on how Bramble.cc can help your business, email contact@bramble.cc or call 020 7735 0030.

Bramble.cc is pleased to announce further dates in its series of webinars, covering the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint and better information management.

These are thirty minute briefings during lunchtime, covering a set topic, and are freely available for everyone to attend over the Internet.

The next webinar, on Wednesday 13th June, will be an interactive demonstration of SharePoint Intranets. This will start at 12.30pm and last half an hour.

Previous webinars are available for later download in the members’ area. Please go to customer login above for access. You will need to create an account if you don’t already have one.

The full schedule is:

• Wednesday 14th March 2012 at 12.30 – SharePoint Intranets
• Wednesday 4th April 2012 at 12.30 – SharePoint for EDRM
• Wednesday 2nd May 2012 at 12.30 – Enterprise Search in SharePoint
• Wednesday 13th June 2012 at 12.30 – SharePoint Intranets
• Wednesday 11th July 2012 at 12.30 – SharePoint for EDRM

To book your place on the webinar or for further information, please email info@bramble.cc with your contact details or call 020 7735 0030.

Bramble.cc’s information management expertise enables City Corporation to make a smooth transition to a new SharePoint 2010 environment

The City of London Corporation has selected Bramble.cc, the information management experts, to replace its legacy document management applications with an enterprise-wide implementation of Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

The City Corporation, which provides local government and policing services for London’s ‘Square Mile’, the financial and commercial heart of Britain, had three separate document management systems to manage information in key areas such as social care, pensions and planning.

Graeme Quarrington-Page, IS Business Strategy Manager, City of London Corporation, said: “We decided to migrate our disparate document management systems to a single, integrated information management system based on SharePoint. We selected Bramble.cc to enable the implementation because of its SharePoint expertise, and because it was able to meet our tight deadlines and provide the best value for money.”

Bramble.cc’s services were purchased via the Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions). Bramble.cc is a leading Government Procurement Service ‘Framework’ supplier and provides services that enable enterprises in the public sector to maximise the benefits of SharePoint 2010.

Richard Archer, Managing Director, Bramble.cc said: “Many public sector organisations struggle with information and documents in different formats and on different systems. We enable them to implement a single, cohesive information management framework based on SharePoint 2010. We are pleased to be working with the City of London Corporation to put this framework in place to ensure that they achieve their efficiency and cost saving objectives.”

The six-month SharePoint implementation project at City of London Corporation is expected to be completed by March 2012.

SharePoint 2010 is software from Microsoft for implementing systems to enable better information management. It includes tools for: electronic document and records management (EDRM); collaborative working; electronic forms and workflow; web content management; portals; enterprise search and business intelligence.

Feeling the benefit of DM

The Managing Director of Bramble.cc, Richard Archer, has an article in the lastest edition of Conspectus – Workflow, BPM & Document Management – for September/October 2011.

In the expert opinion piece “Feeling the benefit of DM”, he highlights what effective information management can do for the bottom line. The article begins…

Today there is pressure on all companies and organisations to cut costs by 10-20% over the next year or two. The question is where are those savings going to come from? Answer: through implementing a common and controlled information management environment.

The fact is, in the information age, most organisations spend an inordinate amount of time creating, reading, manipulating, storing and sharing documents and other data. They are knowledge-based or, to be more accurate, information-based.

Click here for access to the full article.

For more information on how Bramble.cc can help your business and make you significant savings, email contact@bramble.cc or call 020 7735 0030.
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Bramble.cc is pleased to announce a series of webinars covering the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint and better information management.

These are thirty minute briefings during lunchtime, covering a set topic, and are freely available for everyone to attend over the Internet

The current schedule is:

• Wednesday 2nd November 2011 at 12.30 – SharePoint ’10 for 10′
• Tuesday 15th November 2011 at 12.30 – Benefits Quantification
• Wednesday 30th November 2011 at 12.30 – SharePoint 2010 Demonstration

To book your place on the webinar or for further information, please email contact@bramble.cc with your contact details or call 020 7735 0030.

Software Application Solutions available until December 2012

The recent announcement by Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions) that the Software Application Solutions framework would be extended for a year has been welcomed by Bramble.cc.

“This will allow our public sector customers to continue to purchase new solutions through an SME in CRM, case management, document management, EDRM, content management and website design for a further year”, remarked Roland Cunningham, Partner Director at Bramble.cc. “This proven procurement channel enables the UK public sector to realise real value for money and obtain shortened procurement cycles.”

He also noted that contracts, once placed on the framework, could last for up to seven years, potentially allowing our solutions and services to run up to December 2019 for end customers.

Streamlined business processing with ‘while you wait’ claims processing

Cornwall Council is improving customer service to revenues and benefits claimants across the county with a £170,000 EDM and workflow platform from Bramble.cc Limited using Civica. We started the system implementation on June 1 and completion is scheduled for December this year.

Civica is a partner of Bramble.cc on our framework with the Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions), through which the contract is placed. Civica is a market leader in specialist systems and business process services that help organisations to achieve a more cost-efficient way of working.

Using Civica’s software, the income & assessment teams in Cornwall’s Shared Services will speed up revenues and benefits processing with one single platform for scanning and administration of the 3,000 documents and communications they receive every day. Cornwall – which is one of the largest unitary councils in the country – collects £250 million in council tax, £146 million in business rates and pays out over £212 million in benefits annually.

The new system’s workflow capabilities will automatically allocate casework to staff, reduce business processing times and improve management of overall workloads.
In addition, Civica EDM and Workflow enables barcoding of documents, simplifying records management for the estimated 800,000 items held on the revenues and benefits database.

The new implementation continues the authority’s consolidation of operations. Cornwall’s revenues and benefits processing will be administered from three main centres from November this year while the new system will provide improved performance for ‘while you wait’ benefits processing from local offices in the future.

In addition, revenues and benefits staff will have flexible options such as home working in the future, because our platform will integrate with all offices’ ICT systems.

Claire Johnston, project manager, Shared Services, Cornwall Council, commented:
“To cut processing times for our customers, we need a single scanning and administration platform. Bramble.cc and Civica fitted the bill with faster business processes and better integration into our revenues and benefits system. We’re particularly pleased that our service teams will be able to do their own development work on the software modules to further customise our services to customers.”

Richard Archer, Managing Director of Bramble.cc, commented: “The Bramble.cc choice and implementation of the Civica software will help Cornwall’s Shared Services to continue to bring down revenues and benefits processing costs while offering a better, faster service at local offices that are spread out across a very large geographical area.”

Bramble.cc Limited awarded another framework agreement by Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions) for Local Government Software Application Solutions

Bramble.cc is delighted to announce that it is now a successful supplier on the Local Government Software Application Solutions framework agreement, reference RM865, from Government Procurement Service (formerly Buying Solutions). Bramble.cc has been awarded supplier status on 8 out of 9 Lots, more than any other supplier.

The Framework Agreement is intended for use by Public Sector Bodies who require Software Application Solutions to address business service areas within the local government sector. This includes Local Authorities and others such as Police Forces, NHS Bodies, Education Establishments, Third Sector and Charities, who are carrying out the functions of local government.

The Local Government Software Application Solutions framework agreement was designed in consultation with Local Government stakeholders for the provision of Software Application Solutions that support the various functions of Local Governments, e.g. Planning, Social Care. The Government Procurement Service (formally Buying Solutions) is working in partnership with Pro5 to deliver efficient procurement solutions for local government and to bring greater savings through collaboration across the UK public sector.

The framework extends our service offering by adding to our existing Government Procurement Service framework agreements for ICT Consultancy & Delivery Services (RM 591), Software Applications Solutions (RM 713), and Digital Continuity (RM 848). This new framework commenced on 27th July 2011, and will remain in force for two years with the option for two further one-year extensions.

“This is another fantastic win to add to our current framework contracts. As a small SME, we have worked hard with like-minded SMEs to establish a procurement route into the Public Sector. Our belief is that partnering with SMEs offers a true alternative that is responsive, empathetic and provides value-for-money.” Roland Cunningham – Partners Director, Bramble.cc.

Through this new framework agreement, Bramble.cc can supply application software (e.g. packages or bespoke), whether on a licensed/rental/subscription basis, and goods and/or services which are necessary for the implementation, delivery and operation of this application software. This includes everything from consultancy and business change, through design and system build, to integration, training, support and hosting, in the following areas:

• Lot 1: Management & Finance – Revenue, Benefits and Finance
• Lot 3: Social Care & Education – Social Care
• Lot 5: Social Care & Education – Libraries, Museums and Leisure
• Lot 6: Communities – Electoral Services
• Lot 7: Communities – Social Housing
• Lot 8: Environment & Public Protection – Waste and Environmental Health
• Lot 9: Environment & Public Protection – Highways and Transport
• Lot 10: Environment & Public Protection – Planning

Benefits of Government Procurement Service framework agreements

The Government Procurement Service frameworks provide multiple benefits for the public sector organisations who procure services from suppliers on the agreements:

• An efficient, fully EU-compliant route to market
• A standard, pre-agreed call-off contract structure and terms and conditions
• Expert advice and guidance on using the framework agreement
• Provision of management information
• Benchmarking activity to ensure continued value for money
• Supplier management and audit
• Shared information on best practice.

About Government Procurement Service

Government Procurement Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, is the delivery arm of Government Procurement. It’s overall priority is to provide procurement savings for central government, health and all organisations across the UK public sector with a focus that delivers expert sourcing, category and centralised data management.

Through the centralisation, standardisation and aggregation of spend on common goods and services they deliver significant, sustainable cost reductions to Government. The value for money, commercial procurement solutions are fully EU compliant covering energy, property and facilities management, office solutions, professional services, travel, fleet, IT commodities (including telecommunications and networks) and eCommerce.

Contact: Government Procurement Service Press Office
Tel: 0345 410 2222
Email: pressoffice@buyingsolutions.gsi.gov.uk
Web: www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk

About Bramble.cc

Bramble.cc is the UK’s leading independent specialist in information management. Bramble.cc transforms organizations to focus properly on their information. This begins by re-designing and improving the structure of a client’s information, then implementing a programme of change to realign the business and its people with its information, involving technology as necessary. This management-of-change approach results in consistency, standardization, control and integration of information.

Our offerings are supplemented by our extensive partner network. We work with niche suppliers and SME organisations to provide ICT solutions across the Public Sector that meet the stringent requirements of ROI.

Please click here to go to our main Government Procurement Service (Buying Solutions) supplier page, which describes the frameworks and our services in more detail.

For more information on how Bramble.cc can help your business, email contact@bramble.cc or call 020 7735 0030.

Bramble.cc Limited awarded a framework agreement by Buying Solutions for Digital Continuity

Bramble.cc is delighted to announce that it is now a successful supplier on the Digital Continuity framework agreement from Buying Solutions. The new framework has arisen from the work of The National Archives’ Digital Continuity Project, which assists the public sector in ensuring essential digital information is complete, available and usable for as long as it is needed.

The framework extends our service offering by adding to our existing Buying Solutions framework agreements for Software Application Solutions and for ICT Consultancy & Delivery Services. The framework commences from 17th January 2011, and will remain in force for two years with the option for two further one-year extensions.

Bramble.cc can supply Information Management Services through the new Digital Continuity framework agreement, including expert advice and support services for:

• undertaking enterprise wide audits of information to determine factors such as type, volume, usage and location
• developing and implementing retention schedules for information
• delivering efficiencies and improving value for money by analysing business processes dependent on information and implementing new information management systems, policies or procedures
• developing and implementing information architecture based on file plans, vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies or metadata schemas
• undertaking information risk assessments, including assessment of compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements and with other information or records management standards as appropriate.

Benefits of the Buying Solutions framework agreement

Buying Solutions frameworks provide multiple benefits for the public sector organisations who procure services from suppliers on the agreements:

• an efficient, fully EU-compliant route to market
• a standard, pre-agreed call-off contract structure and terms and conditions
• expert advice and guidance on using the framework agreement
• provision of management information
• benchmarking activity to ensure continued value for money
• supplier management and audit
• shared information on best practice

About Buying Solutions

Buying Solutions is the national procurement partner for all UK public services and is part of the Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform Group.

Its role is to maximise value for money for government departments and organisations across the wider public sector through the efficient procurement and supply of vital goods and services.

Buying Solutions delivers best value by aggregating demand, managing the OJEU procurement process and providing ongoing management of framework agreements and other procurement arrangements thereby saving you time, money and effort.

Serving customers in central government, the health sector, local government and the wider public sector, we provide access to trusted, EU-compliant framework agreements and other sustainable procurement solutions.

Contact: Buying Solutions Press Office
Tel: 0345 410 2222
Email: pressoffice@buyingsolutions.gsi.gov.uk
Web: www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk

About Bramble.cc

Bramble.cc is the UK’s leading independent specialist in information management. Bramble.cc transforms organizations to focus properly on their information. This begins by re-designing and improving the structure of a client’s information, then implementing a programme of change to realign the business and its people with its information, involving technology as necessary. This management-of-change approach results in consistency, standardization, control and integration of information.

Please click here to go to our main Buying Solutions supplier page, which describes the frameworks and our services in more detail.

For more information on how Bramble.cc can help your business, email contact@bramble.cc or call 020 7735 0030.