Hampshire IT

What is this project about?

Hampshire County Council has embarked on an ambitious project to plan the development and implementation of a large array of IT systems related to children.

The project could include procuring replacements for

• Our schools’ Management Information System (currently SIMS)
• reporting to parents (currently SIMS Learning Gateway)
• our learning platform (currently Wizkid)
• and other systems.

The project will certainly improve the IT systems involved, but we're aiming a little higher: we want to transform services using IT. Our ambition is to deliver systems that meet the needs of the children and families we work with, while also being more enjoyable and easier to use: in effect, making the systems you use at work more like the IT you use at home! This is no easy task but we will be urging the market to step up to the challenge.

This procurement process is a new approach to buying systems in Hampshire, and one that has not been undertaken by many other local authorities. It will allow us to outline our requirements and then challenge and question suppliers in order to deliver a solution that is not just off the shelf, but tailor-made for Hampshire's children.

The formal procurement notice was released to the market at the end of June. We are seeking a supplier to work in partnership with us and aim to award a long-term contract in Summer 2013.

We report on the project in our termly newsletters for schools:

• Project update - Summer 2012  (page 20)
• Project update - Autumn 2012  (page 18 and 19)
  
  
  

Timescales

• Start of legal procurement - end of June 2012
• Competitive dialogue - November 2012 - early February 2013
• Contract award - July 2013

Then following procurement there will be

• Transformation - July 2013 onwards
  
  
  

Your feedback

Your input is not just important, it is essential: it will help us select our partner for the next ten years. We have gathered your feedback from events held in the spring and summer of 2012:

Summary of your feedback so far  52kb

We asked if any of you would be interested in joining our workstream groups to help us select the right supplier. We have been overwhelmed by the response, and have now decided to split our school volunteers into two groups: the Schools' Workstream Group and the Stakeholder Group.

• The main Schools' Workstream Group meets every two weeks to develop and agree IT outcomes that articulate schools' business requirements
• Stakeholder Group meetings take place approximately every six weeks and they make sure we are properly consulting with schools and will form another layer of assurance from the output of the Schools' Workstream.
  
  

Schools' Workstream Group

Stakeholder Group

Representatives from Berrywood Primary School Henry Tynedale School Brighton Hill School Vyne Community School Everest Community Academy Grange Community Junior Frogmore Infant School Wildern School The Westgate School

Representatives from Aldworth Science College Brighton Hill School Brookfields College Calthorpe Park School Calthorpe Park School Charles Kingsley's CE Primary School Cherrywood Primary School Chiltern Primary Costello Technology College Court Moor School Crondall Primary School Endeavour Primary School Fort Hill Community School Great Binfields Primary Hatch Warren Junior School Henry Cort College Horndean Junior School Horndean Technology College Kings Copse Primary School Knights Enham Junior School Leesland Infant School Liss Junior School Mountbatten School Orchard Junior School Park Primary School Perins School Rachel Maddocks Special School Roman Way Primary School Samuel Cody College Shakespeare Infant School The Clere School Toynbee School Vyne Community School Wellow & Awbridge Primary Schools