Civica acquires Innogistic

Group extends market position and capability with acquisition of
leading geospatial systems specialist

October 2011, London… Civica, a market leader in specialist systems and business process services that help organisations to transform the way they work, has announced that Civica UK Ltd, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, has acquired Innogistic Limited (“Innogistic”).

Based in Bristol, Innogistic specialises in application software and related services with particular expertise in geospatial information systems. The company is a leading supplier to local and central government, fire services, police and utilities, helping more than 120 customers to deliver efficient modern services enabled by location-based IT systems and computerised mapping.

The acquisition brings specialist technology and resource to the Group, and extends Civica’s market presence at a time when effective location data management is of increasing use as a means to achieve fast, flexible and lower cost services from public safety to water utility operations. Recent successes for Innogistic include new contracts with Conwy and South Gloucestershire councils and Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service together with winning the Best Technology Project award from Yorkshire Water.

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Innogistic Awarded a Place on New Government Procurement Service Framework Agreement.

Innogistic has been awarded a place on the new ‘Local Government Software Application Solutions’ framework agreement. This pre-qualified procurement agreement is instigated and administered by the Government Procurement Service (formally Buying Solutions), an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, whose overall priority is to provide procurement savings for the UK Public Sector as a whole and specifically to deliver centralised procurement for Central Government Departments.

Innogistic, the Bristol based independent software developer, has won its place under Lot 10 of the agreement; ‘Planning related Software Application Solutions’.  This means that public sector customers are now able to obtain Innogistic’s advanced portfolio of solutions including planning systems, e-consultation systems, gazetteer management and GIS, through Government Procurement Service’s streamlined procurement channels. Innogistic already holds a place on the existing Government Procurement Service GISS framework agreement, which covers the procurement of Geographic Information Solutions and Services.

Dan Ormsby, Innogistic's Commercial Director said: “We are very proud to have been awarded yet another place on a Government Procurement Service framework agreement.  Being a part of these agreements makes the whole procurement process so much more efficient for both the public sector and its suppliers, which is a really key issue in the current economic climate.  Our advanced solutions have a very good reputation and are already bringing significant cost and efficiency benefits to many authorities and public services across the country.  With our winning this new place, our existing and future public sector customers can now obtain our solutions via a much more efficient procurement channel.  We are looking forward to working with Government Procurement Service, and helping more Public Sector Organisations achieve these benefits in the future.”

The new Framework Agreement comes into effect on 28th July 2011.

Innogistic wins Web GIS Tender from Conwy Council

North Wales unitary authority, Conwy County Borough Council, has appointed Innogistic to supply their new corporate geospatial infrastructure.  The appointment was made following submission of a full tender against a number of other suppliers.  The new solution will centralise the authority’s GIS requirements into a new corporate spatial data infrastructure (SDI), comprising a centralised spatial database and web applications for staff and members of the public using Innogistic’s innovative Community Map solution.

The council currently runs a large number of desktop GIS installations which access an unmanaged central file store.  These require separate licensing, management and updating which can be costly and time consuming, and result in data duplication which is prone to error and inconsistency.

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Cambs Fire & Rescue Service are first to implement Innogistic's new CFRMIS™ 5

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service has become the first brigade in Great Britain to implement Innogistic’s new CFRMIS 5 (Community Fire Risk Management Information System).  The new version of this popular Community Fire Safety solution is fully web enabled and can be accessed via a web browser.  CFRMIS is now the most widely used fire safety software in the UK and is operational at over half of the country’s Fire and Rescue Services.

Andy Carter, Emergency Services Business Manager for Innogistic said: “This new version of CFRMIS, being fully web enabled, has obvious cost benefits for our FRS partners in these cost conscious times, as there is no need for resident software on all accessing terminals.  All the CFRMIS facilities and functionality can be accessed through security controlled permission levels via any standard web browser on any web enabled PC, laptop or other device.  This is a good example of how CFRMIS has been, and continues to be, developed in close co-operation with all our UK FRS partners”.

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Innogistic Launches New Generation Fire Risk Management Solution.

Innogistic, the Bristol based software experts, have announced the launch of CFRMIS 5, the next generation of its highly successful fire risk management solution.  CFRMIS is the UK’s most popular fire risk management software and is in use at almost 60% of the country’s Fire and Rescue Services for technical, community and operational risk management.

Andy Carter, Innogistic’s Emergency Services Business Manager said: “CFRMIS 5 is the culmination of a truly collaborative 3 year project, which has seen our new solution developed in partnership with our Fire & Rescue Service customers.”

CFRMIS 5 is now entirely web based, which presents significant efficiency and cost benefits for Brigades as it requires less resource to deliver the solution’s services; welcome news in these challenging economic times.

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