Issue - meetings

The Deputy Cabinet Member for Performance and Data Insight introduced a report on proposals relating to the procurement of phase 2 of the Council’s One View programme, the state-of-the-art predictive analytics platform that brought together a range of data to provide the Council with a single view of its residents and their needs.

The Deputy Cabinet Member advised that the One View programme had enabled the Council to interact far more effectively with its residents and he highlighted the pilot project initiated by the Homes and Money Hub which targeted several households identified as potentially being in financial difficulty.  That exercise helped households to source additional income and avoid enforcement action and its success meant that the approach was now being rolled out as business-as-usual by the Homes and Money Hub. 

The initial four-year contract was due to expire in March 2023 year and, due to the specialist nature of the contract, the intention was to negotiate directly with the current software supplier, Xantura, for a further three-year contract.  The Deputy Cabinet Member also spoke on the potential savings that the Council could expect to achieve from phase 2 of the programme and the plans to extend its use to more service areas within the Council in order to provide an even more holistic service to its residents.

Cabinet colleagues spoke in strong support of the One View project and its potential to improve lives across the Borough, particularly when used in conjunction with the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.  The Acting Chief Executive also reported on praise bestowed on the Council at an Institute of Government seminar regarding the way that it collected and used data in relation to interventions.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree to procure phase 2 of the predictive analytics programme (currently delivered in the form of One View) in accordance with the strategy set out in the report; and

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Director of Strategy, in consultation with the relevant Cabinet Members, the Strategic Director, Finance and Investment and the Chief Legal Officer, to conduct the negotiation and award and enter into the contracts and relevant extension periods and all other necessary or ancillary agreements with the supplier, subject to the appropriate funding being agreed as part of the 2023/24 budget setting process.