{"title":"Property Management in Scottish Enterprise: The Means to an End?","authors":"E. Hall","doi":"10.4324/9780429432873-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429432873-15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":361161,"journal":{"name":"Local Authority Property Management","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133167488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Property Services: The Private Sector Response to Competitive Tendering","authors":"G. Pottinger","doi":"10.1108/02637479810214132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02637479810214132","url":null,"abstract":"Property is a key resource for the delivery of public services and needs to be managed well. The previous Conservative government had a conviction that better value public services could be delivered by harnessing private sector expertise and, since the late 1980s, embarked on an unprecedented level of competitive tendering. This procurement method had extended to the appointment of property consultants, but the system encountered difficulties which research by the College of Estate Management (CEM) sought to explain. The research, undertaken in 1995 and 1996, involved interviews and major questionnaire surveys covering managers and property professionals in the public and private sectors, leading to recommendations about changes to practice and policy. This paper traces developments in local government, by comparison with central government, from before the advent of compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) for property services in April 1996 through to the latest changes proposed by the new Labour government after May 1997. It concludes that competition is an important management tool, but recommends greater flexibility in the way procurement is implemented.","PeriodicalId":361161,"journal":{"name":"Local Authority Property Management","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121523433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Application of Geographic and Land Information Systems to the Management of Local Authority Property","authors":"M. Ralphs, P. Wyatt","doi":"10.1108/02637479810214123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02637479810214123","url":null,"abstract":"Since the Audit Commission’s report on local authority property management in 1987 and subsequent publications, there has been substantial investment in geographic and land information systems (GIS/LIS) by local government. This paper reviews the issues associated with the uptake of information technology (IT) for property management within local government, taking the Audit Commission’s findings as its starting point. It considers how authorities have taken up new technologies and describes progress in this area. British Standard BS 7666 for geographical referencing presents new opportunities for integrated property management in local authorities. The paper discusses this development, drawing on examples from local authorities. The paper concludes by examining the Western Australian Land Information System (WALIS). This is an example of how information sharing between local and central government organisations can add value to data sets collected and maintained by each, reduce duplication of effort and offer a more consistent service.","PeriodicalId":361161,"journal":{"name":"Local Authority Property Management","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122160506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}