Crapita

Brent Council recently signed a deal with Crapita Business Services for council tax and business rates administration and IT support systems. Reported to be worth £15m over 5 years, the function of the contract is to increase the council tax collection rate, with Crapita giving a guaranteed a collection rate for council tax and an anticipated £4.6 million in savings for the Council over the initial term of the contract....

After the twitter feed of UK Gov ICT contracts emerged from the recent LinkedGov hackday I’ve been subscribed to searches for open source and linux. Now, aside from the useless daily email of ‘no results found’, the contracts finder does throw up some interesting things, like this procurement note from West Sussex Country Council for information technology services, Official EU reference: 31260-2011. This procurement note is for a schools management information system....