Transcript 117-Brian_Dearden_APUCx

Project EDAM
Brian Dearden
Head of Category
Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges
Project EDAM
Before:
• No national asset register
• No national system for naming lab equipment
estate.
• Strategically important equipment being left
unsupported.
• Supplier-controlled market for support
• Less oversight on funding applications.
• Little sharing of equipment/facilities.
Project EDAM
Motivating factors:
• Increasing costs of equipment
maintenance/support/servicing.
• Wakeham review restrictions on grant
funding application.
• Increased oversight on grant funding
restrictions.
• Desire to increase instances of
equipment sharing.
Project EDAM
Proposed aims:
• Create taxonomy for categorising
equipment.
• Create database of lab equipment
estate and roll out to sector.
• Maintain database
• Identify collaborative maintenance
opportunities.
Project EDAM
Progress to date:
• Created taxonomy for categorising
equipment.
• Data collection.
• Created database.
• www.edam.ac.uk
Project EDAM
Next Steps:
• Provide access to database to
colleagues.
• Identify opportunities for collaborative
approach to maintenance.
• Contract for collaborative
support/maintenance/servicing
agreements
Project EDAM
Benefits:
• Lower cost of servicing
• Asset management tool.
• Facilitate collaboration.
Project EDAM
Project EDAM
Project EDAM
Brian Dearden
Head of Category: APUC
0131 442 8930
[email protected]