UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

London Borough of Islington signed a call off contract with our incumbent service provider to deliver a fully managed, secure, and resilient network to approximately 110 sites across the borough. Implementation of a new WAN involves the physical installation of circuits and equipment into all council buildings. It is crucial that the Council maintains a fully functioning, secure and supported Wide Area Network (WAN) to provide connectivity from LBI buildings to Council IT services. 5.3.1. The next generation of WAN paves the way for better integration with Cloud-based applications meaning there is less dependence for on-premises hardware and infrastructure. This will therefore reduce the Council's energy consumption although we acknowledge that this is offset by the energy consumption from within the cloud-based solution.

The MWSEA equips the Council with the latest versions of the Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365. A MWSEA allows the Council to legally access all the licensed software and products we require from Microsoft. These products include Windows operating system running our laptop devices, Microsoft 365 productivity such as Excel,Outlook, Word etc, and collaborative tools OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and Viva Engage plus supporting databases services through Microsoft SQL.

Islington Council's CCTV control room monitors 155 public space cameras with 21 4GHD cameras and 10 ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras. CCTV is used onthe streets, for public buildings and also key council sites such as Islington and St Pancras Cemetery. We also can access the cameras from housing estates across the Borough where we provide a concierge service to some of our larger estates and tower blocks. CCTV provides surveillance to specific areas and locations which provide better security for residents and visitors to the area, reduce the fear of crime and help to detect and prevent crime.

Software Materials Licence and Software Maintenance. The system (Capita ONE) underpins council statutory functions within Children's Services. It stores sensitive information about Islington pupils, their Education history and details of any involvement from Pupil Services. Therefore it would be a high risk to the council to continue with an un-supported system

A cloud based bereavement services management solution that facilitates crematoria and cemeteries in operating to world class standards. Pull everything you need from your bookings diary, funeral director portal, finance, memorial safety inspections and mapping all into the ONE place, saving you time, money and reducing risk.

the council must ensure that it has processes in place so that data breaches are reported and investigated in a timely manner and reported to the ICO within 72 hours. Use of a case management system specifically designed to manage this work has meant that some of the time-consuming tasks have been automated. This has meant the IG team has been able to take on more requests corporately and there has been an overall increase in compliance.

Procurement of the new cloud based legal case management system will mitigate the risks presented by the system becoming unsupported in October 2022 when the current contract runs out. The new legal case management system aligns with the Council's IT Strategy and Application Roadmap, by migrating from maintaining onsite IT infrastructure to a system that is hosted by suppliers and/or provided as a service that includes system hosting resulting in reduced ICT costs.

The current system has also been plagued with technical challenges ranging from limitations in the current features associated with different technical issues (Logins, bandwidth constraints, connection drops mostly encountered whilst working from home to slow connection accessing the system remotely. The existing Civica Prescient+ model isn't robust enough to cater for a full remote solution,which has been identified during the recent Covid pandemic. A lot of the users had to come into the office, due to the technical difficulties experienced when trying to access the current Civica solution remotely

Implementation of compliance software to manage mandatory data protection paperwork (DPIA/ROPA (IAR) and data flows) and Information Risk. Cloud-based system to manage core data protection paperwork (ROPA/DPIA), capture and manage information risks and ensure that data breaches can be managed effectively.

To Deliver an asset management system to manage the administration and delivery of waste and street cleansing services across the Council. Provision of an integrated cloud-based system to manage the operational and management requirements for domestic and commercial waste and street cleansing operations and ongoing support for 2 years, plus option to extend for two further periods of 12 months.

To incorporate a new Local Business construction directory within the main IDOX directory. The purpose of the contract is to host a Construction Directory on the current directory hub, with the aim of expanding the directory to include other sectors. The functionality of the current directory hub is suitable for the Construction Directory and is more cost effective and will enable residents and businesses in the borough to access the service.

Accurate Data Matching Tool that meets the existing business needs across the council. Its purpose is to use rules and algorithms to link data from 60+ different systems to create a 'golden record' for an individual and/or family. These records are used in an operational capacity for ad hoc investigations/projects and ensuring the council can meet its legal obligations This tool will be a short-term solution, while the council look at a strategic approach to a data matching capability within our Corporate Data Platform.

Purchase and Implementation of Civica iCasework councillor case management system on request of Chief Executive. System will enable Councillors to log and track cases from members of the public and follow up with relevant internal departments to bring to successful resolution. Additional reporting features will enable the Council to easily identify problematic service areas, or ward specific issues to enable improved forward planning and engagement with its residents.

The London Borough of Islington has 10 Public Libraries situated across for the borough. They have public computers with internet access and public Wi-Fi provided free of charge. The architecture setup of the Public PC is that of a VDI (Virtual desktop Environment) Internet Access for the Public libraries in the borough this will also provide wifi free of charge

Support, Maintenance & Professional Services from Advanced Ltd, for the upgrade and support of Cognos

An additional jobs portal to the existing LIFT website to serve job seeking residents in Islington, Camden, Hackney and Tower Hamlets looking to secure training and employment in the tech & digital, creative and science sectors

Consultancy services to build the required elements in MS Azure and migrate the identified apps to the new environment. Professional Services to Migrate IT workloads to MS Azure. Support & Maintenance of the MS Azure environment post migration.

Burial Vaults are a popular product that addresses a healthy demand for this type of offering already sold by the service. The income stream these specific products will bring into the cemetery service will be reinvested back into the service for sustainability projects and offset losses of income over the next several years as remaining burial spaces are used up. Islington Council is seeking to invite suitable expressions of interest from suppliers for 1617-0087 Vaults. ICCS (Islington and Camden Cemetery Services) have been providing these products for a number of years over several areas within Islington and St Pancras Cemeteries. We are looking to extend our current provision to new areas within the main site as well as increasing on the existing areas. The current arrangement is expired and the Council seek to establish a multi-supplier framework agreement.

Modernising the council's intranet from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online will achieve value for money, because it will move large amounts of content and documents from the current unsupported platform which poses a risk to the council's cyber security. The new intranet will also have positive staffing implications because the new platform will be more accessible to staff on-the-go, including those who do not have council devices.

There is a business need for a Managed Service for our Corporate Data Platform. This service is currently being managed by ANS Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner and the contract. ANS Group was originally procured to fulfil two service requirements, one the existing Managed Service Contract and the other, a Development Contract which provides Data Engineering and Data Architecting skills to deliver a series of Use Cases on to our Corporate Data Platform