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Bramble Hub is a thin-prime supplier on Local Authority Software Applications
We are a thin-prime supplier on Local Authority Software Applications. This allows our partners to provide their products and services to organisations across the UK public sector
About Local Authority Software Applications
Start: 04/08/2014
End: 31/03/2019
Local Authority Software Applications - RM1059

We work as a thin prime contractor, that enables best of breed specialist partner suppliers to satisfy public sector projects. We provide the commercial support and advice to help make the procurement process as simple as possible, enabling our partners to concentrate on their specialisms: planning, delivering and supporting customers’ requirements and meeting expectations.

What is the framework for?

The Local Authority Software Applications (LASA) framework has been introduced by Crown Commercial Service (CCS) to assist public sector organisations deliver services to the citizen and has been structured along operational business areas. Although primarily aimed at the Local Authority sector, it can be used by all UK public sector organisations, including central government, health, education, devolved administrations, emergency services, defence and not-for-profit organisations.

There is a catalogue associated with this framework, which enables public sector buyers to ‘click and buy’ the business software and related services featured on it, significantly reducing their procurement cost and timescales. Unlike G-Cloud, the LASA catalogue is only visible to public sector buyers with CCS-supplied ID and password.

Here’s where we can help

As well as having access to the competitive framework, Bramble Hub has over 390 line entries on the LASA catalogue, which offer:

  • server-based and cloud-based solutions
  • a range of related services, including consultancy, training, hosting, implementation and support and even associated hardware (up to 10% contract value) – everything the buyer needs to meet their requirement.
Framework Lots

Public sector buyers can use the LASA competitive framework and catalogue to procure business solutions, software and related services divided into Lots.

There is a catalogue associated with this framework

Many of our registered partners have entries on this catalogue, which is available for ANY public sector organisation to use to ‘click and buy’ our partners’ services and solutions.

Lot 2 Payment Processing & Cash Receipting systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

  • Agent-mediated, online and automated payment processing
  • Payment tracking, classification, reporting and reconciliation
  • Interfaces to major UK merchant service platforms
  • Interfaces to customer’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM), tax and financial accounting systems
  • Complies with (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)) standards
Lot 3 Planning, Building Control, Local Land Charges and Licencing systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

Planning

  • Administer all stages of planning application
  • Search and enquiries
  • Application of planning policy
  • Calculate charges and Community Infrastructure Levy
  • Process appeals
  • Planning enforcement
  • Flood defence

Building Control

  • Administer applications and payments
  • Application tracking
  • Manage site inspections
  • Support for dangerous, special and temporary structures and demolition works

Local Land Charges

  • Land charges register management
  • Searches

Licencing administration and enforcement systems

  • Personal Alcohol Licences
  • Premises Licences
  • Club Premises Certificates
  • Temporary Event Notices
  • Hackney Carriage and Private Hire vehicles and drivers
  • Other licences
Lot 4 Libraries systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

  • Catalogue search
  • Self-service reservation and renewal
  • Kiosk support
  • Procurement / acquisition
  • Digital library provision
  • Membership management
  • Records archiving
Lot 5 Property/Housing Repair systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

  • Self-service and agent-mediated case initiation
  • Incident tracking; procurement and commissioning
  • Time and materials planning, job allocation and work recording.
Lot 6 Social Care e-Marketplace:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

  • Catalogues for a range of services;
    • Home care,
    • Holistic therapeutic days out,
    • Residential home places
    • Assistive equipment
  • Reporting tools
  • Integration with Finance/BACS
Lot 7 Public Health systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

  • Public Health Planning and Improvement
  • Public Health Protection
  • Public Health reporting and commissioning systems
Lot 8 Civil Enforcement systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

  • Application for parking permits
  • Administration of (any type) penalty notices
  • Challenges and appeals
  • Collection of payments and collections
Lot 9 Open Government Systems, Interoperability and Integration Services:

Solutions and services to create and improve openness, interoperability and data sharing between systems, citizens and staff and improve the experiences of system users and reduce costs of transactions/interactions. This includes systems and services aimed at providing the necessary capability to enable and/or build new solutions and/or added value solutions based upon the services provided by the different Line Of Business systems.

We can provide services, platforms and capabilities that allow sharing of information based on open standards;

These include;

  • Interfaces
  • Brokered/managed workflow
  • Single front end
  • Commodity online services
  • Automated services across systems
  • Master Data Management
  • Mobile enablement of existing applications
  • Information search across structured and unstructured data sources
  • Identity Management
Lot 10 Democratic and Citizen Engagement Systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

Electoral Management

  • Voter registration and validation
  • Election management
  • Proxy voting
  • Postal voting administration
  • Moving constituencies

Citizen information provision and consultation

  • Committee Paper Systems
  • Citizen consultation or survey systems
  • Social media management and monitoring tools
Lot 11 Other Local Authority business systems:

Solutions and services to enable eligible customers to complete the following tasks/functions including:

Waste Management Systems

  • Domestic and Trade Waste collection planning and scheduling
  • Special collection booking and planning
  • Street Cleansing scheduling
  • Waste dataflow management including collection of data from weighbridges and posting directly to DEFRA
  • Cesspool management and collections
  • Minerals and waste planning and management

Museums systems

  • Collection management systems
  • Booking and ticketing systems

Sports and Recreation systems

  • Asset Management Systems
  • Parks and Countryside Management
  • Facilities booking systems
  • Ticketing systems

Registrar systems

  • Manage appointments for Birth, Marriage and Death registration
  • Staff / event allocation and management

Burial and Crematorium systems

  • Cemetery or crematoria administration/ management

GIS

  • Geospatial Systems
  • Meet Open Geospatial Consortium Standards
  • services relating to INSPIRE compliance