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Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust buy Student Information Management System (SIMS)

Posted on 25 November 2016 - 13:30 by

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust buy Student Information Management System (SIMS) from Bramble Hub and Tribal Education.

Partner:    Tribal Education 

Background

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (The Trust) is a specialist NHS foundation trust in the field of mental health with over 600 employees. Its Directorate of Education and Training (DET) has responsibility for supporting the provision and development of postgraduate and post-qualifying mental health and psychotherapy training

The Requirement

The DET needed to replace its fragmented and limited IT system to improve efficiency and support streamlining of key business processes to strengthen revenue growth. In November 2015, the Trust issued a tender for a Student Information Management System (SIMS) under Crown Commercial Service’s RM1042 Framework: Corporate Software Solutions.

Our Success

The Trust selected Bramble Hub and Tribal Education’s SIMS solution and commissioned project initiation, migration and orientation to implement the solution that was finally contracted in November 2016, with the addition of a Student Account Management module to manage and report on student debt.

Highways England use iRecruit from Bramble Hub and CIPHR

Posted on 10 November 2016 - 13:19 by

Highways England use iRecruit from Bramble Hub and CIPHR to help build new team

Partner:  CIPHR

Background

Highways England (HE) is a recently-formed government-owned company with responsibility for managing the motorways and major roads in England.

The Requirement

HE was embarking on a 5-year £11bn investment programme to boost road capacity, tackle congestion and improve safety. It needed a system to manage the recruitment of personnel to undertake this work. They identified suitable software solutions via Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud 8 Framework catalogue (RM1557viii).

Our Success

Following an informal assessment, HE selected and ordered Bramble Hub and CIPHR’s iRecruit Secure Recruitment Software as a Service (SaaS). This 2- year contract included the enhancement of the system’s existing reporting function to meet Highways England’s specific requirements.

Eastleigh Borough Council move to Cadcorp’s GIS System

Posted on 7 November 2016 - 13:13 by

Eastleigh Borough Council move to an efficient, corporate-wide GIS system with Bramble Hub and Cadcorp’s GIS desktop and web products.

Partner:    Cadcorp

Background

Eastleigh Borough Council (EBC) in Hampshire, providing services to a local population of 126,000, had embarked upon modernizing their systems to making all processes and systems customer-centered and deliver a more joined up service across all work areas. 

The Requirement

As part of this upgrade, the Council needed to move to an efficient, corporate-wide GIS system and looked for this in Crown Commercial Service’s Local Authority Software Applications Framework catalogue.

Our Success

EBC selected Bramble Hub and Cadcorp’s GIS desktop and web products to deliver their requirements. This included Cadcorp SIS Desktop GIS for administrators and advanced GIS users and Web Map Layers for both users of the Corporate GIS (Intranet) and the Public Access (Internet) GIS.  The order was placed on 20th September 2016 and included training and implementation support.

Cleaning up at Rugby

Posted on 18 October 2016 - 10:47 by

Partner:   Webaspx

Background

Rugby Borough Council (RBC) serves the 91,000 population of the town and surrounding rural areas.

Requirement

RBC needed to improve the efficiency of its waste collection services and looked on Crown Commercial Service’s Local Authority Software Application framework (RM1059) catalogue for a suitable route optimization solution.

Our Success

RBC selected the Round Design route optimization software and WM InCab modules from Bramble Hub and its partner Webaspx.  The call-off order, which included training, set-up and support for 5 years, extendable to 7 years, was issued on 18th August and the contract signed on 18th October.

TOPdesk solution top of the class for University of Dundee IT department

Posted on 6 October 2016 - 10:44 by

TOPdesk solution top of the class for University of Dundee IT department

Partner:  TOPdesk

Background

The University of Dundee (UD) is a public research university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on the east coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland.

The Requirement

The University of Dundee’s IT Department needed a software solution to enable them to manage their IT services more efficiently. A suitable cloud-based solution was identified on the Government’s Digital Marketplace (RM1557) G-Cloud software applications catalogue. 

Our Success

The University of Dundee selected TOPdesk SaaS Enterprise, the ‘out-of-the-box’, Cloud-based service management solution from Bramble Hub and its partner TOPdesk UK.   

Bramble Hub’s high standards of quality and information security confirmed

Posted on 16 September 2016 - 08:23 by

We are pleased to announce that Bramble Hub successfully passed the external assessment for re-certification to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013. This means that independent auditors have found our Quality, Environmental and Information Security Management Systems to be operating in full compliance with the requirements of the standards.  

We are among the first companies to have been operating our systems to the new ISO standards for over a year and this has allowed us to take advantage of the new high level structure and framework across the standards to streamline and integrate our controls and review processes wherever possible.

We are also delighted to be able to announce that we have now also been tested and certified under the government-backed Cyber Essentials Plus scheme, which confirms that our infrastructure is protected by effective and efficient security measures.

These certificates don’t just look pretty on our website – they represent a real commitment to our partners and customers that we continue to operate to the highest possible standards.  

Bramble Hub and White Spruce help UK Hydrographic Office improve their SAP system

Posted on 25 August 2016 - 10:01 by

Bramble Hub and White Spruce help UK Hydrographic Office improve their SAP system.

Partner:  White Spruce Limited

Background

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) collects and supplies hydrographic and geospatial data for the Royal Navy and merchant shipping, to protect lives at sea. Working with other national hydrographic offices, it sets and raises global standards of hydrography, cartography and navigation.

The Requirement

UKHO needed SAP experts to: implement the Print to Order functionality which will allow customers sales orders to be printed immediately to fulfill the customer specific demand; make improvements to the UKHO existing SAP credit management processes;  deliver on-going support and general consultancy for the SAP application at UKHO. 

Our Success

The contract was awarded in August2016 by UKHO to Bramble Hub and its partner White Spruce Limited to provide this service using the direct order mechanism through the Enterprise Application Support Services Framework (RM1032). Implementation commenced in October 2016.

Combining forces to combine resources

Posted on 22 August 2016 - 10:22 by

Combining forces to combine resources

Partner:  Corporate Project Solutions (CPS)

Background

The combined Constabularies work closely together to police the 1.6m population across two counties. 

The Requirement

The Constabularies operate separate intranets, which were dated and out of Support. Their requirement was to have a single Intranet site to cover both Forces, to include new functionality which would enable them to improve efficiency, streamline processes, reduce duplication and encourage interaction. A mini-competition was held in June 2016 under Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Outcomes and Specialist Framework (RM1043iii) to select a supplier for the implementation of the new intranet.

Our Success

The contract was awarded to Bramble Hub and its partner Corporate Project Solutions (CPS) on 22nd August 2016.  Work is in hand to deliver the Sharepoint 2016 solution, with Nintex integrated workflow and forms. Target completion date is end of March 2017. 

G-Cloud 8 goes ‘live’

Posted on 8 August 2016 - 10:08 by

G-Cloud 8 goes ‘live’ with 197 entries from Bramble Hub and its partners

Bramble Hub has been successful in having all its 197 entries accepted on to G-Cloud 8, the latest iteration of government’s Digital Marketplace portal. This puts us among the suppliers with the greatest number of entries on the catalogue.

We took the decision to re-submit all our G-Cloud 7 entries, as well as renewing the G-Cloud 6 entries that were about to expire and adding 23 new entries for partners, so that all our entries are valid for the whole 2-3 year lifespan of the framework.

These entries reflect the large range of cloud related solutions and services we can offer to the public sector, working with the following partners:

  • Imperial Civil Enforcement (ICES)

  • InPhase

  • Launchpad Recruits Ltd

  • Marathon

  • Membership Engagement Services (MES)

  • Menntor

  • ModernGov (Modern Mindset Ltd)

  • Northdoor

  • OpusVL

  • Origina Limited

  • Peru

  • Prism Infosec

  • PTFS Europe

  • Quicksilva

  • Quinyx

  • Simplisys

  • Software AG (UK)

  • Systems Plus Transformations

  • TextThing

  • TopDesk

  • TopLevel Computing

  • VIP Apps Consulting

  • Wifinity

  • Zsah

  • Advorto

  • Aligned Assets

  • Applied Network Solutions (AmLib) and ANS

  • Assuria

  • Box-IT Document Solutions

  • Bramble Knowledge

  • Bramble People

  • Cauwill Technologies Limited

  • CIPHR (fromerly Konetic)

  • CommonTime

  • Consolidata

  • Contino (formerly Sendachi)

  • Criticall Limited

  • Docusign

  • Egress Group

  • Emoquo

  • Ether Solutions

  • Eviture

  • Fiorano-TDIM Ltd

  • Fortrus

  • Global ECM Solutions

  • Hydra

  • Icon UK

 

The G-Cloud framework is managed by the Government Digital Service (GDS) in collaboration with the Crown Commercial Service (CCS). It is available to all UK public sector organisations and provides an approved and recommended route for all government procurement under its ‘Cloud First’ policy.

All change at Crown Commercial Service

Posted on 31 May 2016 - 13:48 by

It’s all change at Crown Commercial Service. The Government purchasing agency’s commercial director for technology, Sarah Hurrell, has left for a new private sector role with the market-leading accounting and payroll software provider Sage.

Rob Nixon takes over from Sarah as Commercial Director for the technology pillar. He is an experienced international procurement leader with expertise in every aspect of supply management, including direct and indirect global procurement, outsourcing and off-shoring. He’s also speaking at this year’s Public Sector Show, held at ExCel London in late June.

CEO Sally Collier is also leaving CCS, to take a Chief Regulator role with Ofqual chief regulator. During her time at CCS she worked hard to champion the government’s involvement with SMEs via the Contract Finder website and also helped abolish pre-qualification questionnaires for IT contracts.

Malcolm Harrison is taking over as an interim COE to replace Sally, and he has an impressive track record. He has worked his way up through the procurement hierarchy, from buyer to manager to CPO, and as a result he has exactly the right broad-brush expertise for the job.

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