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IPL and Manhattan Atrium bags £9m Framework Contract  Other Services

10 Jul 2014| Posted by Morris | In Other Services

The Environment Agency (UK) has awarded IPL and Manhattan Atrium a £9m framework contract to employ a new system to conduct the upkeep of its flood and coastal defence assets.

The first phase of activities under the framework will be to engage Manhattan Atrium’s Enterprise Asset Management System, which will convert and consolidate the management of these important assets.

The four-year programme will facilitate the Environment Agency to lend more funds on the expenditure of these vital assets by deducting the administrative expense of maintenance planning, delivery and reporting.

All across England, the Environment Agency has more than 150,000 flood and coastal defence assets, and the new system will facilitate it a single view of all the national maintenance activity, further facilitating to develop efficient prioritised schedules on the basis of regional need and available finance.

A full service IT organisation, IPL will deliver the programme and Manhattan Atrium, which is proficient in the development, implementation and support of a leading, fully-integrated Enterprise Asset Management system. As the main contractor, IPL will handle the project, and facilitate Business Intelligence and Java development competency to develop the connections between Manhattan Atrium’s off-the-shelf Asset Management platform and other Environment Agency systems. Manhattan Atrium will be lending their standard Enterprise Asset Management product and associated implementation services, including configuration management workshops and subsequent product configuration, data loading, provision of interfaces, product hosting and software training courses.

By facilitating the Environment Agency to handle its maintenance via a central system, the Environment Agency will be able to yield more up-to-date reports on the condition of assets, and manage short, medium and long term maintenance programs more effectively.

According to Jim Barlow, Deputy Director, Asset Performance and Engineering at the Environment Agency - IPL and Manhattan Atrium collaboration will engage their proven enterprise asset management system which will facilitate the Environment Agency to accept advance industry best practices and assist us make necessary changes in the plan strategies and deliver our services for the community.

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