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Article: United Kingdom: Councils Collaborate: Bracknell Forest manages Hillingdon smartcard scheme.
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- September 5, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
The London Borough of Hillingdon has launched its Hillingdon First card - a residents' privilege card offering local people access to services at discounted rates. Because Bracknell Forest had already followed a full EU procurement for the provision of SmartConnect support services, Hillingdon was able to contract directly with BFC without needing to complete a long and expensive tendering process. It was able to do this because it was able to demonstrate best value.
More than 140,000 smartcards were issued using Bracknell Forest Council s SmartConnect Card Management System, one of the software outputs from the ODPM s National Smartcard ...