Arena Group has won a four-year contract with the National Procurement for Housing Consortium as the recommended supplier of ‘photocopiers, printers and multi-functional devices (MFD)’ and ‘office-based managed print services (MPS)’. Wendy Griffiths, category manager from PfH, said, “Arena impressed us very much with their tender submission. They answered questions to a very high standard…
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General News
Cadarn’s Dutch trip
In the July Issue of Housing Technology, Henk Korevaar from the Dutch housing IT consultancy F-fectis invited senior IT professionals to a study trip to the Netherlands. I accepted the invitation and travelled to Utrecht in September to the Corporatie Plein 2012, the leading Dutch conference for housing associations. On arrival, Henk introduced me to…
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Richmond Housing ambassadors for online safety
Three Richmond Housing Partnership employees have completed ‘ambassador’ training through the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre to help keep young people safe online. RHP says that it is the first housing provider to take part in CEOP training to provide advice and support to its customers. The CEOP Centre is part of the…
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A2Dominion declares interest with Parabola
A2Dominion Group has completed the automation of its annual Declaration of Interests processes using a SharePoint-based system from Parabola Software. As part of its corporate governance, A2Dominion requires all employees, board members and other individuals related to the organisation to complete a Declaration of Interests form once a year as well as whenever their DoI…
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Habinteg Housing seeks ICT proposals
As part of a pan-European project, Habinteg Housing Association is looking for ICT suppliers to put forward products or services designed to make life easier for older and disabled people. Submissions will be considered for inclusion in a new database of resources as part of the European I-stay@home project in which Habinteg is the UK…
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New ways of working and European innovation
Inspired by Housing Technology’s ‘New Way of Working’ event at the BT Tower in June, I want to explore further what opportunities might be waiting to be discovered from looking at Europe and beyond. I decided to do some research and analyse what our foreign partners are doing to tackle their particular social housing issues…
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