Government and Security

UK Government Department

Atkins helps this client to structure and deliver its £300m pa portfolio of capability development with a single programme office supporting five programmes, up to 15 themes and nearly 60 projects as well as providing support to product development centres.

Atkins provides portfolio, project and programme consultancy support to the client and achieves benefits including:

  • Faster delivery of programmes and projects

  • Increasing competence of client’s project managers

  • Improved management of client’s resources

  • Reduced use of contract project managers

  • Reduction in year on year costs of project and programme support

  • Better portfolio management

  • Delivery of more of the right capability

  • Increase in use of industry by client to deliver non-core capability

  • Increase in agility of client’s business

  • More effective cross agency working

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National Offender Management Service (NOMS) - Training Integration Manager

HMPS was under huge pressure to reduce costs not directly associated with the operational line (i.e. prisons and prisoners) and this was particularly true of the HR Directorate once the Service had established their Shared Service Centre (SSC) in Newport.

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Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)

Atkins provided consultancy and project management services to help Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) deliver ICT shared services to support 11 major civil service departments. Our consultants helped deliver the programme in demanding timescales, in around nine months in total to meet the target date for opening the Shared Service Centre (SSC) in May 2007.

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Manchester City Council

Manchester has some of the most exciting development opportunities and programmes in the UK but some of the biggest project delivery challenges with a capital programme of 800 projects worth £250m pa. We designed and implemented a Project Management Portal that provides a single point of access for on-line practical support for project managers.

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London Excellence in Programme & Project Management (EPPM)

Atkins devised and delivered a plan to achieve London-wide Excellence in Programme and Project Management (EPPM). This initiative involved working and engaging with 42 different stakeholder groups to ensure that London’s public services become leaders for innovation, fairness, relevance, efficiency and effectiveness.

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Broadband Wales Benefit Study for the National Assembly for Wales

The five-year, multi-million pound, flagship Broadband Wales Programme was launched by the Welsh Assembly Government in July 2002. The aim of the programme was to underpin a positive economic outlook for Wales through the delivery of national broadband.

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