Civica bags £25m deal to handle web portal for UK National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/09/civica_25m_ndors_contract/
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Run by the UKROEd (UK Road Offender Education) nonprofit, the scheme aims to retrain drivers found guilty of common traffic offences. Already accessing the system are UK police forces, training providers, and members of the public who need to access driver training.
In [1]a contract award notice published late last week , UKROEd named Civica, the privately owned UK-based public sector software integrator, as the company set to provide a managed service to ensure "that it continues to reliably support up to 2 million people who access its services annually."
"The chosen service provider will act as the prime contractor for maintenance and support as well as ongoing development and enhancement of the platform and the secure, UK domiciled, hosting of all data and technology assets," it says.
The contractor will run the web-based portal, including the management of APIs to allow programmatic access to key system functions. The application is written in Angular, a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web framework, and C# using the .NET WebAPI framework.
The system, dubbed DORS+, consists of four web-based portals which support police forces to help them register and administer offenders requiring "behavioural change education"; train providers to allow them to list course availability and manage attendance; allow the public to search for and arrange the appropriate training.
Civica is to act as the prime contractor for maintenance and support as well as ongoing development and enhancement of the platform and "the secure, UK domiciled, hosting of all data and technology assets." The initial contract is set for four years, with options to renew twice for two years eahc time.
The contract award comes on the back of the company winning deals with Norfolk County Council and Liverpool City Council, as well as [2]housing association People for Places .
On its [3]website, NDORS says that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all classroom courses have been temporarily replaced by digital courses until 3 August. ®
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[1] https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:263465-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/15/salesforce_housing_association_crm_contract/
[3] https://www.ndors.org.uk/faqs/are-courses-being-cancelled-due-to-the-coronavirus-issue/
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Have you used Civics payment websites?
It like something defined in Frontpage 2000.
A real design nightmare.
Falls over and fails payments all the time too. Absolute POS
"behavioural change education"
Uncle Joe, Mao, Tito, Pol Pot, etc. must be so proud that UK plod have seen fit to appropriate their methods in these troubling times.
And before the "Brake" supporters chime in the UK has the 3rd lowest number of casualties per 1M pop. in the world, below only Norway and Switzerland
Re: "behavioural change education"
Despite that, the most likely way to meet a violent death in the UK is in a traffic collision.
Re: "behavioural change education"
@AC #1. What a pile of crap! Have you ever had any experience with one of these courses? Trying to equate it to totalitarian regimes isn't just a stretch, it a break. The courses aren't run by the coppers (as you would be aware if you RTFA) you just get a chance to go on one if you get nicked for speeding instead of getting a fine and points on your licence. The points don't magically vanish as, if you are done again in the next 2 years, you get them anyway.
Re: "behavioural change education"
Santa from Exeter said "The points don't magically vanish as, if you are done again in the next 2 years, you get them anyway."
So DON'T SPEED THEN! It's not exactly rocket science - don't break the law, don't get sent on a Law-breakers' re-education course. Although, since it doesn't seem to have sunk in when you were learning to drive, it isn't really RE-education at all.
Having witnessed the carnage some of these accidents cause, I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who goes on these courses. I have even less sympathy for anyone who "qualifies" for more than one.
(I'm not sure if Santa is trying to defend speeders or not. Encouraging idiots to break the law on a public forum - even one as anarchic and free-thinking as El Reg - isn't really a good idea, is it?)
Well, at least it's not Crapita!
But still, what could possibly go wrong?