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CAMBRIDGESHIRE HIGHWAYS SELECTS BIW TO MANAGE 40,000 PROJECTS A YEAR BIW Contract Administration to support work totalling £27.5m/year 23 June 2009Cambridgeshire Highways, a joint initiative by Cambridgeshire County Council and contracting partner Atkins, is to use a project control platform from UK-based Software-as-a-Service technology provider BIW Technologies (BIW) to manage around 40,000 small projects a year, currently valued at approximately £27.5m per annum. The BIW system will provide a central repository for all documents, drawings and other information, and will support contract administration workflows associated with the NEC3 form of contract. In 2006, Cambridgeshire County Council commenced a ten-year framework agreement with Atkins to deliver all highways-related work across the county. With around 40,000 small projects a year – ranging from numerous pothole repairs and road-sign and white-line works up to the design and construction of new road-bridges - Cambridgeshire Highways opted to use a web-based system to manage information. Including the core team and four first tier suppliers, some 200 users will have secure access to the system once it is rolled-out in July 2009. The BIW platform includes its core document management module, creating an online repository of documents, drawings and related information that can be accessed 24/7 by authorized users from any internet-connected computer. Additionally, as Cambridge Highways’ work is administered using the NEC3 Term Services Contract (TSC), a configuration of the BIW Contract Administration module was designed to meet Cambridgeshire Highways’ exacting contract management, reporting and monitoring needs. Louise Collier, the Council’s network manager and service manager for the BIW project says: "The BIW system offers an excellent combination of comprehensive document management and contract administration features. The sheer volume of small projects we undertake means we need a powerful project control system, and we are currently in the process of populating the platform with project data ahead of a ‘go-live’ launch of the system in July."
BIW chief executive Colin Smith says: "The BIW platform is proven across many organisations’ geographically-dispersed, multi-project programmes of engineering projects. Cambridgeshire Highways is demonstrating the value of the system in managing high volumes of minor repairs and improvements – all within the rigorous project management requirements of the NEC3 TSC contract."
- ends - More information from: Notes to editorsCambridgeshire Highways - Cambridgeshire Highways (www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/ch/) is a partnership between Cambridgeshire County Council and Atkins, supported by supply chain partners to form a single provider for the highway network management service in the county.
- The key objective for Cambridgeshire Highways is to work as a single and seamless organisation delivering a continuously improving highways service to the people of Cambridgeshire.
- Cambridgeshire Highways delivers work in a number of areas: highway maintenance, transport asset management, traffic management, street lighting and bridge maintenance as well as the design of major transport infrastructure and transport planning advice.
BIW Technologies - Project collaboration services from BIW Technologies (www.biwtech.com) were first employed in 1999 on UK construction projects for major retailer Sainsbury’s. BIW believes it is the European leader in web-based collaboration systems for the construction and property industry, measured by numbers of users, usage and volume of data.
- The BIW platform is a sophisticated web-based supply chain integration technology, designed specifically for construction projects or programmes. Each client is provided with a unique, project or programme-specific website created around a knowledge database. With this, data can be made available securely to every team member – from the earliest concepts, through detailed design, buildability studies, pre-fabrication, construction, maintenance, operation and improvement to the eventual demolition or dismantling of the facility.
- BIW customers include leading UK companies such as Bovis Lend Lease, Sainsbury’s, Mace, Crest Nicholson, Canary Wharf, The Resort Group, The Wellcome Trust and The Coal Authority.
- BIW, BIW Financial Control, BIW Contract Administration and BIW Navigation Forms are registered trademarks or trademarks of BIW Technologies Ltd
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