This is the second in a series of articles from Viridian’s project consultant, John Paul, covering the various stages of a live Competitive Dialogue procurement process. Subsequent articles will track the progress of the project, from its inception through to, we hope, contract signatures. The first article was published in the September 2012 issue of…
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Finance Management
Coactiva prepares Southern Housing for universal credit
Southern Housing Group is using Coactiva’s data collection and analysis services to identify which households in its 25,000 properties are most at risk from next year’s planned introduction of universal credit. Before Coactiva’s involvement, SHG had already sent its information relating to ‘number of bedrooms’ to each local authority within its stock areas, but SHG…
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Housing statement outsourcing from Tall Group
The Tall Group has launched a secure statement printing solution for housing providers as part of its business process outsourcing services. The company has spent more than £50,000 on laser printing technology and intelligent mailing equipment to support the service and ensure high levels of security, accuracy and efficiency. A newly-created digital print and mailing…
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Family Mosaic improves service charging with BlueBox
Family Mosaic is tackling the complex area of accurately allocating service charges using Bluebox property management software from Trace Solutions. Bluebox will automate the majority of the service charge processes, replacing the hundreds of individual spreadsheets that Family Mosaic was using before. Pam Moran, head of customer accounts, Family Mosaic, said, “Our systems were originally…
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SDS links with Savills for appraisals & valuations
Software developer SDS and Savills have agreed to link the Savills Automated Valuation Model (AVM) with the SDS ProVal viability appraisal application. Savills entered into a partnership last year with Rightmove to make their desktop tool for referencing rents and capital values available to the affordable housing sector. This latest agreement with SDS will give…
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Welfare reform – Taking credit where it’s due
With just over a year until universal credit and its associated welfare reforms are expected to be introduced, Housing Technology gauged the housing sector’s opinion on the likely results of this massive change to finance in social housing and its IT impacts. The planned introduction of universal credit will have a very direct impact on…
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