Transport for London selects MPS's CCM for tunnel refurbishment

Thursday, 29 April 2010

Management Process Systems Limited (MPS) of Cambridge has announced that their Contract Change Management (CCM) system, which supports the NEC form ofcontract, has been selected for the Blackwall Tunnel Northbound Refurbishment project by Transport for London.

The CCM system manages the contract change processes set out in the NEC formof contract. Key benefits – which deliver reduced project risk and costs savings in contract administration include: timely agreement of change, quality assured contract administration, the early completion of final account, improved contract management discipline, real time visibility of risk and change issues, improved change management, quality assured processes and consistency of operation, online access to risk spend information, rigorous audit trail, business performance reporting.

An academic-led research project by the University of the West of England (UWE) and an assessment process enables customers to demonstrate the provable benefits from the use of CCM. The extensive use of CCM over the last decade by virtually all the major clients, consultants and contractors across the construction industry has established CCM as the leading contract change management system in the market place.

CCM is a three time construction industry award winning solution, and is the first UKimplementation of Software as a Service (SaaS) to support the NEC. MPS hold the IBM Software Platinum Achievement Award as IBM Independent Software Vendor ofthe Year. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CCM system is delivered through an agreement with IBM for Server Managed Services. This agreement includes data centre, hardware equipment and software products, internet services, security and support services.

Robin Wilkin, Operations Director of MPS said: “Management Process Systems is recognised as the established industry leader in NEC contract management systems. CCM has been used on hundreds of projects in the UK. These include many large infrastructure works such as highways, railways and flood defence schemes. We are very pleased that TfL have chosen to implement CCM on such an important road link which links the north and south London together.”

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