Logica awarded framework for Automated Meter Reading (AMR) by Buying Solutions

Framework to help drive compliance with the UK Carbon Reduction Commitment

Logica, a business and technology service company, has announced that it has been awarded a framework for Automated Meter Reading (AMR) and Associated Services by Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for UK public services. This arrangement supports the recently enacted UK Carbon Reduction Commitment – Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC-EES) legislation, which demands that organisations can prove they understand, and can predict and manage their energy consumption.

Buying Solutions has put in place a framework for Automated Meter Reading (AMR) and Associated Services that makes it easy for organisations to procure the services they require to save money, reduce energy use and ensure an organisation is compliant with the government’s scheme. Not only does the scheme offer significant financial benefits to those organisations that comply, but it also imposes civil and financial penalties to those that do not adhere to the new legislation. All participants in the scheme will be evaluated and ranked on a number of metrics. These rankings will be made available to the general public online and through the national press. The league tables will begin to be published in July 2011.

Nigel Kirby-Green, Managing Director, Public Sector, Logica emphasised that, “A growing number of organisations will require help from consultancies to equip themselves with the means to comply with these complex requirements. Organisations have to review and collate a vast amount of data from across their business activities. We believe that our rich history of successful IT delivery and organisational transformation coupled with our sustainability capabilities provides a powerful offering. It’s our role to provide organisations with the skills and innovative technologies to manage this information, and enable them to comply as efficiently as possible.”

Patricia Byrne, AMR Category Manager, Buying Solutions, commented, “We are committed to helping organisations understand and reduce their environmental impact. Logica is able to help organisations understand their energy use and carbon footprint, so problems can be highlighted and resolved. Our goal is for organisations to ultimately make the necessary changes so they reduce their carbon footprint.”

About Logica
Logica is a business and technology services company, employing 39,000 people across 36 countries. The company delivers business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing across all industries and business functions. Logica creates value by successfully integrating people, business and technology to create effective, sustainable business ecosystems. Employees apply insight to create innovative answers to help with business needs.

Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG).More information is available at www.logica.com.

About Buying Solutions
Buying Solutions is the national procurement partner for UK public services. It was established in 2001 as a result of the Gershon Report, through a merger of the procurement functions of the Buying Agency and CCTA. We are an Executive Agency of the Office of Government Commerce in the Treasury.

The primary role of Buying Solutions is to maximise the value for money obtained by Government departments and other public bodies through the procurement and supply of goods and services.

Buying Solutions is a Trading Fund which is run on commercial lines, with responsibility for generating income to cover its costs and make a return to the Treasury.

Buying Solutions is the largest of over 40 Professional Buying Organisations (PBO) in the wider public sector. Whilst OGC sets procurement policy and best practice to help the UK public sector to achieve value from its spending; Buying Solutions delivers procurement solutions for nationally sourced commodity goods and services to customers in both central civil government and the wider public sector. It however has no formal ‘mandate' and therefore has to ‘earn' its customers.

As the only PBO with a legal remit to trade across the whole of UK public services, Buying Solutions is the smart choice for public sector procurement, enabling organisations to deliver improved value for money and efficiency. It facilitates the buying process in a vast and highly complex marketplace, providing access to over 500,000 products and services through more than 600 suppliers. The diverse customer base spans the biggest central government departments, NHS Trusts and local councils, through to the smallest schools.

Press contacts
Rima Awad
Head of PR and Media Relations
Logica
Email: rima.awad@logica.com
Tel: 07799 477 158

Nadia Nandi
UK PR Manager
Logica
Email: nadia.nandi@logica.com
Tel: 07921 932 363