{"id":25583,"date":"2022-12-23T12:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/overhaul-of-uks-multibillions-in-property-held-back-by-it-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T12:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T12:37:36","slug":"overhaul-of-uks-multibillions-in-property-held-back-by-it-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/overhaul-of-uks-multibillions-in-property-held-back-by-it-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Overhaul of UK’s multibillions in property held back by IT \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UK government has failed to get a grip on the management of its \u00a3158 billion ($190 billion) property portfolio because of a failure to replace an ageing database system.<\/p>\n

According to a report from MPs<\/a>, Cabinet Office, which helps run cross-departmental government, does not have the data or IT system necessary to oversee and manage the government estate, which costs around \u00a322 billion ($26 billion) a year to maintain.<\/p>\n

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The building of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Whitehall \u2013 one of the most valuable properties in the state’s portfolio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cGood data is essential so that government can manage and maintain its property efficiently. In 2020, the Cabinet Office shifted from collecting data on the civil estate, such as offices and warehouses, to collecting data on all government property, including for example, hospitals and schools. However, the existing government property database, the seventeen-year-old ePIMS system, is unable to accommodate this additional data,\u201d the report from the Public Accounts Committee said.<\/p>\n

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The plague of ageing, inadequate data systems strikes again, this time at the heart of Government\u2019s \u00a3158 billion property estate<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Following a series of hearings, the committee concluded the Cabinet Office\u2019s efforts to update its system have so far been unsuccessful. \u201cUntil the new system is up and running, the Cabinet Office will continue manually collecting property data from departments,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Government property management current relies on the ePIMS system, which has been in place since 2005 but is not capable of handling the data for 136,000 properties, including schools and hospitals under the expanded remit.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Cabinet Office announced its replacement, called inSite to be built by a supplier called Landmark Solutions. \u201cThe Cabinet Office told us that it considered commercially available systems in 2018 but believed off-the-shelf options, at the time, were not capable of receiving data from 160 different bodies across government,\u201d the PAC report said.<\/p>\n

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