Progress Licence and Software Maintenance

Tender description

This contract is for the Annual licence Maintenance and support for NLC Progress applications deployed on Unix servers. Lot 1: There are currently 6 Progress applications residing on the councils Unix Solaris estate – all developed in-house over the last 20 years, namely: Building Cleaning Management System (BCMS) - provides work order and recharge facilities, for the maintenance of council facilities. Municipal Bank – manages the council’s bank (recently the bank service has stopped but the management of the legacy account information remains for a 6-year period). Home Insurance – manages council house insurance for tenants. Housing Services Management System (HSMS) – manages multiple Housing Service-related functions including Tenancy Management, Rent Accounting, Common Housing Register and Allocations, Homelessness, Arrears and Court Processing, Housing Support, Repairs and Maintenance, Gas Servicing, Property and Estate Management, Anti-Social Behaviour. Application Control System (ACS) – manages the batch processing for all Unix hosted Progress and Oracle applications and databases. GIFT – file transfer management system for BACS, ledger, files etc. This agreement supports the above.