Contract Win

RNS Number : 3302T

IDOX PLC

04 June 2009

 



4 June 2009

IDOX plc

IDOX wins £1.5 million third phase of Scottish ePlanning project 

IDOX group (AIM: IDOX), a leading developer and supplier of software solutions and information services to local government, has won a £1.5 million contract to deliver phase three of the Scottish Government's ePlanning Efficient Government Project. 

IDOX has already delivered, over the past 18 months, the first two phases of a four-stage, £12 million project to modernize Scotland's planning system. 

Phase three, worth up to £1.5 million over five years, enables 24 Permitted Public Bodies to make Local Development Planning information immediately accessible to citizens online through textual and spatial interfaces, and permits the electronic submission of any representations. 

Scotland's investment in the new IDOX system will help to improve access to development planning information and enhance the public's engagement with the development planning process.  

Richard Kellett-Clarke, IDOX CEO, said: 

'Having successfully delivered the aggregation and integration of planning information into a national planning portal for Scotland, we are delighted to have been selected to provide phase three, which will further improve the public's ability to engage with and contribute to the planning process in Scotland.      

 For further information, call:

IDOX plc
Martin Brooks, Chairman	020 7332 6000
Richard Kellett-Clarke, CEO William Edmondson, CFO
Investec Andrew Pinder / Erik Anderson	020 7597 4000
College Hill Adrian Duffield	020 7457 2020

Notes for Editors

IDOX plc

IDOX plc is a supplier of software solutions and services principally to the UK public sector and the leading applications provider to local government for core functions relating to land, people and property through its UNI-form, Plantech and IDOX product range. Some 70% of UK local authorities are customers.

The Company gives public-sector organisations the tools to manage information and knowledge, documents and content, business processes and workflow as well as connecting directly with the citizen via the web.

It also supplies decision support content and additional specialist services via the IDOX Information Service.

Under the TFPL brand the company is transforming approaches to knowledge and content management via consultancy and training, as well as providing these specialist skills to customers through its recruitment division.

For more information see www.idoxplc.com 

About Scotland's ePlanning initiative

Planning systems are central to the Scottish Government's ability to manage the development of its towns, cities and rural areas and in 2001, the Scottish ePlanning Group was established to coordinate the use of new technology for better planning service delivery.

In August 2006, Scotland's ePlanning Programme was formally launched to generate efficiency savings in the planning process, ensure a step change in ePlanning Service Delivery and to demonstrate the planning system's embrace of modernisation.

The partnership is being led by the Scottish Government's Planning division and includes all 32 Scottish local authorities, the two National Park authorities, Scottish Government Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals (SEDPEA) and a number of statutory consultees including Scottish Natural Heritage, Historic Scotland, Scottish Water, Transport Scotland and Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.

To see the IDOX system in action, visit the ePlanning Scotland pages on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/ePlanningScotland

 

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