Market Engagement – Workforce Management Solution

The NIHE seeks to engage with suppliers who can offer a Workforce Management IT system to provide all of the following core requirements:

•a range of technology options to integrate with the NIHE IT Systems including Web Services , Application API’s, file exchange options including secure FTP , XML and CSV

•Work order management and tracking (to be used on mobile devices) to include:

-Capture of work risk assessments

-Recording of stock/ materials used per work order

-Record before and after photographs of work order

-Schedule of Rate management

•Resource Planning and Management to include:

-Dynamic scheduling engine

-Workforce planning

-Task allocation

-Staff profiles/ competencies

-The ability to record task completion times

-Text messaging to customers

• Confirmation and evidence of text messaging to tenants to confirm appointments

•Mobile Working:

-Full workload/diary and detailed work tasks available on and updated directly from secure mobile device

-Point of Work Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work

-Direct capture of task events/stages (e.g. task assigned time/date, arrived time/date, task complete time/date) and task status aligned with KPIs.

-Automatic notification of task variation

•Fleet Management, tracking the key information about vehicles and equipment

•Full dashboard reporting facility to support reporting against task KPI’s, cost reporting against budget, resource availability and efficiency, resource workload, resource timesheets.

•Document Management

•Electronic survey templates

•Asset Management

NIHE also has the following additional requirement which could be provided by either the core system or via integration with separate IT systems. This includes:

•Stock Management:

-The ability for NIHE vans to hold and manage stock for response repairs and record stock history, availability, pricing and distribution. Additional information: If you would like to register your interest, please e-mail [email protected] no later than 23rd February 2022 at 15.00 giving your contact details i.e. name,. job title, email address and contact telephone number. Any requests to register interest after this time and date will not be accepted. Please ensure only one representative from your organisation registers interest. NIHE may wish to follow up with a questionnaire and subsequently hold interviews on submitted questionnaires and/or hold demonstrations of products to seek further information. Please note that information associated with this Expression of Interest is subject to change.