This is the third in a series of articles covering the various stages of a live Competitive Dialogue procurement process, from its inception through to, we hope, contract signatures. The first article was published in the September 2012 issue of Housing Technology. An important part of procurement projects based on competitive dialogue is the idea…
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Magazine Articles
ENEHL swaps paper for e-purchasing
East North East Homes Leeds (ENEHL) has developed a new subcontractor work allocation payments system (Swaps) in conjunction with Leeds City Council and Barclaycard. The new system makes it easier for the housing provider to allocate jobs to its roster of subcontractors and speed up the necessary payment processes. Swaps comprises two components. The first…
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Hammersmith & Fulham on target to save £1 million with Experian
Hammersmith & Fulham is using Experian’s fraud detection and data-matching techniques to analyse the tenancy records of its 12,000 properties. This analysis, combined the local knowledge of the council’s housing staff, led to the targeting of around 300 high-risk properties and has already saved almost £700,000, with an anticipated total saving of £1 million by…
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96 per cent of landlords worried about universal credit
The latest quarterly survey from the National Landlords Association has found that 96 per cent of the 500 landlords surveyed were concerned about the introduction of universal credit. Other related concerns included arrears avoidance (64 per cent) and minimising voids (56 per cent). While it should be noted that the NLA represents the private residential…
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RTI and auto-enrolment system from MidlandHR
To help housing providers meet two of the largest and most complex legislative changes in recent years, MidlandHR has launched a real-time information (RTI) and auto-enrolment (AE) solution. MidlandHR customers went live on HMRC’s RTI pilot project in 2012, involving around 40,000 employees and pensioners across 20 payrolls. The RTI and Pensions Reform initiatives are…
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Editor’s Notes: Nimble and secure
What’s around the corner? As we’ve said before, rent arrears will become a business-critical area for every housing provider with the introduction of universal credit. We expect to see new IT suppliers addressing the housing sector, particularly as local and central government departments restrain their IT budgets, and therefore look at social housing as a…
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