The Fallen...

[Grommit]

Our Respect to our fallen Comrades....

Stoke

Press release: Stoke announces ICT preferred bidder

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has announced that Research Machines (RM) PLC is their preferred bidder for ICT in BSF. RM will design, implement and manage an ICT service supporting around 14,000 pupils in 24 schools, and will work with the council’s construction partner, who is yet to be announced.

Knowsley

Press release: ICT preferred bidder for Knowsley

Knowsley Council has appointed RM as ICT preferred bidder for their BSF scheme. RM will design, implement and deliver an ICT managed service to Knowsley’s seven Learning Centres

Leeds

Press release: Leeds announces ICT preferred bidder

Leeds City Council has appointed RM as the preferred ICT bidder for their Building Schools for the Future scheme. RM will initially provide ICT infrastructure to 14 schools and other ICT services to Education Leeds, which provides Leeds City Council’s frontline education service.

Manchester

Press release: Manchester announces ICT preferred bidder for BSF

Manchester City Council has announced that Ramesys is their preferred bidder for ICT in BSF. Ramesys will deliver a managed ICT service to schools in Manchester’s BSF programme

Solihull

Press release: Solihull announce preferred bidder for BSF ICT

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council have announced that the BAM PPP consortium is their preferred bidder for BSF. Working with RM, their ICT preferred bidder

Waltham Forest...

RM

Lambeth ...

RM

[john]

Spot a pattern yet

Glad to see Ramesys in there!

[Grommit]

Spot a pattern yet

Glad to see Ramesys in there!

Sorry

Waltham Forest should read RAMESYS

Newcastle

went LEA In-House ( believe)

[tosca925]

RM

God help them.

[steve]

The Leeds one is a bit strange.

Education Leeds ... is a unique partnership between Leeds City Council and Capita.

So the schools are managed by Capita, with RM supporting the IT.


Luckly I don't work in Leeds

[john]

I will cross Leeds off as a place to work instead now, Capita I could manage but not RM.

[Grommit]

RM

God help them.

One thing I don't understand..

The BSF and others state that the "new" ICT systems must be Non-Proprietary... and open..

yet they are now spending millions on RM systems ..like the CC3 which is Proprietary.. ??!

[GrumbleDook]

Is it confirmed that they are using CC3? I was under the impression that they weren't ... and even if they did they can say that CC3 is not propietary as you can still buy and use a number of other AD integrated solutions too ...

The difference between CC3, CSE, Classlink, Ranger ... and then something like Microsoft's Learning Network Manager or self-coded tools ... is that the first bunch *extend* the schema ... but do not remove anything, and the latter sit on top of the schema.

The AD schema still exists and can be editted ... you just might not be able to edit the extended sections.

Damn ... I'm defending RM again ... I'm off to see Russ ... he has twisted me to the dark side!

On a serious note ... does anyone know if any of the proposals by winning companies are public domain yet?

[john]

@Tony, don't worry I have the perfect cure for you, two tickets to a west end show in the new year That will solve it

[Grommit]

@Tony, don't worry I have the perfect cure for you, two tickets to a west end show in the new year That will solve it

It doesn't happen to be the new show in town.... "We are all stuffed because The BSF is giving our jobs to RM" ?

[john]

I suppose it could be though of as something similar, it contains globalisation and an evil ruler and some dudes that want to break free from it. Hey the more I think about it the more its BSF set to Music!

[beeswax]

is there anywhere we can see the full list?

[Dos_Box]

Some wil be excellent, some will be good, and some will be abysmal. Unfortunately we will only find out is a few years which is which. I blame the 2 in 5 schools (IMHO) whos ICT was p**s poor for brining this on. For every 5 schools rolled up into a BSF project 3 had good to excellent ICT setups ad 2 had not bothered to do anything, a failure of either senior manglement of poor network management or just apethy. It is because of these 2 schools that the othere will proberbly lose the facilities they currently enjoy and will have to pay extra to get them back in the future due to the contracts only providing a 'base level' of service.

[GrumbleDook]

I suppose it could be though of as something similar, it contains globalisation and an evil ruler and some dudes that want to break free from it. Hey the more I think about it the more its BSF set to Music!

Does that maker Gazza, Scary Bush and the Bohemaians all members of schoolforge then?

[richard]

I was thinking of looking up around Stoke for a job as I'm from there orginally but don't think I will now