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New Normal Technology Pilot Projects

Meeting: 12/11/2019 - Cabinet (Item 110)

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Decision:

That the principle of running pilot projects in the Council in Business Process Reengineering and Robotic Process Automation and agree to appoint the suppliers noted in the Part II report be agreed.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

The approval to release £93,495 from the Management of Change reserve to fund this work.

 

 

Minutes:

Decision

That the principle of running pilot projects in the Council in Business Process Reengineering and Robotic Process Automation and agree to appoint the suppliers noted in the Part II report be agreed.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

The approval to release £93,495 from the Management of Change reserve to fund this work.

Corporate objectives

Delivering an efficient and modern Council

The use of the techniques delivered in the pilot projects will enable the identification of process inefficiencies in the Council. This will enable remediation to be identified, planned and executed to deliver savings. These may or may not make use of robotic process automation software.

 

Monitoring Officer

 

Officers must ensure that the preferred suppliers agree to an appropriate service contract or terms and conditions prior to commencement of the contract.

 

Deputy S.151 Officer

 

The contracts have been procured following the standard DBC procurement process and the evaluation criteria included a value for money assessment.

 

Advice

 

Councillor Williams introduced the report which was to take pilot projects forward to judge its effectiveness.

 

L Roberts said this approach has been taken to minimise the risk to the council and work in partnership with these companies to make sure it works in the long run.

 

Councillor Griffiths said she was pleased to see the council trying something new.

 

Recommendations agreed.