Management Process Systems Limited (MPS) - General Development - Bedford
Date: 21 Jan 2008
Management Process Systems Limited (MPS) today announced that their innovative Contract Change Management (CCM) system has been selected to manage the NEC contract processes on two major projects for Bedfordshire County Council. As part of the Bedfordshire Highways Managing Agent Contract, Amey are leading design and project management services on the highway schemes. The £17m Ridgmont bypass project on the A507 near Junction 13 of the M1 is being constructed by Birse Civils and is expected to be completed during spring 2008. Carillion Regional Civil Engineering will carry out the £18m Bedford Western project which is due for completion during early 2010. Both projects will be completed under the NEC form of contract.
Malcolm Haynes, Project Manager, Bedfordshire Highways said, "I believe the CCM system will assist the Amey, Birse, and Carillion management teams deliver best practice change and risk management to our clients in a transparent and auditable fashion. Being web-based, the system is extremely user friendly and flexible allowing secure access to be achieved wherever internet access is available. In addition, it is set up for each individual contract and, therefore, helps to ensure that the Project Manager strictly follows the requirements for each contract to be administered."
Henry Smith of Bedfordshire County Council said, "The acquisition of CCM has proved to be an innovative & streamlined method of dealing with all aspects of administering our contract, it has negated the need for numerous and lengthy meetings and associated travel to and from locations for meetings for many participants. I have been impressed with the ease of use and navigation around the system is easy to pick up - CCM has proved to be a valuable system of keeping all interested parties abreast of all events relating to the job. A one stop shop accessible for my desktop has proved to me its value."
The Internet based CCM system, provided by MPS, is designed to manage the contract change processes set out in the NEC form of contract, versions 2 and 3. CCM is currently being used by an extensive range of clients around the UK, on civils, power and building projects. Key benefits include timely agreement of change, quality assured contract administration, the early completion of final account, improved contract management discipline, instant visibility of risk and change issues, improved change management, quality assured processes, consistency, instant access to risk spend data, rigorous audit trail, and instant availability of Excel reports over the web - all leading to reduced risk and reduce costs.
The CCM system is provided in partnership with Cantono, who provide the IT infrastructure through a managed service. The systems and infrastructure design supports an On-Demand business requirement with key partners, suppliers and clients. The application and associated databases reside on a fully managed IBM eserver configuration in a state of the art data centre using IBM Middleware.
Robin Wilkin, Operations Director of MPS said, "The implementation of CCM with Bedfordshire Highways is extremely important to us as it demonstrates the growing importance of best class contract management and audit trail, alongside the 21st century requirements of collaboration and visibility. These are provided by the operation of CCM over the internet to enable key people to access the information any place, any time. Many Councils now demand these benefits and the growth of CCM implementations across the country indicates that MPS are meeting these needs. In addition, after 6 years of feedback from contractors, consultants, and clients, MPS provide version V3 of CCM which includes a substantial number of enhancements, whilst keeping its operation reasonably simple for users."
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