Scottish Road Works Register

08 July 2010, 10:39am

The contract for providing the Scottish Road Works Register service for the next five years has been awarded to Symology Ltd. The scope includes a fully hosted service for the national centralised Road Works Register, including electronic notification and integrated digital mapping. Plant Information Requests and a “Dial before you Dig” service are also included.

The contract includes options to extend the service both to allow exchanges of data in real time between SRWR and individual works management systems and to provide a centralised electronic records service for all underground apparatus. The overall service will be backed up with a comprehensive range of maintenance, support, help-desk and training services.

The decision was made following a detailed evaluation of the bids submitted by six short-listed organisations, based on determining the offering that provided a comprehensive, quality solution on the most economically advantageous terms.

John Gooday, in his role as Scottish Road Works Commissioner, is the “Keeper of the SRWR”. He commented “Following a rigorous procurement process, I am pleased to confirm that Symology will be the provider of our new SRWR service. This is not ‘business as usual’ as the contract contains a number of additional enhancements over the current service with the option to add other innovative services, particularly the possibility of centralised access to electronic underground apparatus records. The Scottish road works community has worked very closely with Symology in developing the current service and I am sure that they will continue to do so and keep SRWR at the leading edge of such systems worldwide.”

Susiephone Ltd is responsible for arranging the provision of the SRWR on behalf of the Commissioner. Brian Cooper, Chairman, explained “The Directors are proud to be involved with the ongoing provision of the SRWR by enabling the contract re-tendering process. The continuation of the SRWR service with the enhancements included in the new contract specification will significantly benefit not only the user community but other organisations and the travelling public as well.”

Ken Hickson, Chairman of Symology Ltd, added “We are delighted to retain the Scottish Road Works Register contract for another term, and view this as an endorsement of the hard work we have done over the last five years to establish the Register to its current level of functionality. This has only been possible because of the excellent partnership relationship that has been established with the Scottish community. We are determined to build further on this and continue the incremental improvement process, to ensure that the SRWR retains its position as the most advanced system of its kind”.

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