Title: Municipal Waste and Software Applications
Dear Allerdale Borough Council,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I kindly request the following information in the context of domestic waste bin/sack collection services, as opposed to trade/commercial collections or waste disposal.
1. Are you currently in a partnership with other councils for waste IT system operations or procurement? If in a partnership please name the partner councils?
2. Do you currently operate waste services (collections) directly, or through a waste contractor such as Biffa, Suez or Veolia. If through a contractor, please name them.
3. Which of the IT systems below do you use for the management of day-to-day municipal bin collections:
a. Yotta
b. Bartec Collective
c. Whitespace/Powersuite
d. Selected Interventions / Echo
e. Core (Suez)
f. Webaspx
g. Other: [please name]
Response:
4. When is your current contract for the IT system OR outsourced waste contract for waste collections management due to expire?
What main software do you use for operational management of:
5 Grounds/parks maintenance
6. Street cleansing
7. Pest control
8. Cemeteries
9. Playgrounds and play equipment
10. Geographic Information System (GIS)
11 Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
I would like to thank you in advance for your help with this.
Yours faithfully,
DPatrick
Dear Allerdale Borough Council,
I note that you have not responded to this request and you should have responded by June 8th.
I await your response
Yours faithfully,
Mr Dave Patrick
Dear Sir/Madam
I am unable to read the message below. Please can you resend the request so that I can check.
Valerie Gray | Information Governance & Data Protection Officer
Allerdale Borough Council, Allerdale House, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 3YJ
E: [email address] | W: www.allerdale.gov.uk
Please find below the original request:
Dear Allerdale Borough Council,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I kindly request the following information in the context of domestic waste bin/sack collection services, as opposed to trade/commercial collections or waste disposal.
1. Are you currently in a partnership with other councils for waste IT system operations or procurement? If in a partnership please name the partner councils?
2. Do you currently operate waste services (collections) directly, or through a waste contractor such as Biffa, Suez or Veolia. If through a contractor, please name them.
3. Which of the IT systems below do you use for the management of day-to-day municipal bin collections:
a. Yotta
b. Bartec Collective
c. Whitespace/Powersuite
d. Selected Interventions / Echo
e. Core (Suez)
f. Webaspx
g. Other: [please name]
Response:
4. When is your current contract for the IT system OR outsourced waste contract for waste collections management due to expire?
What main software do you use for operational management of:
5 Grounds/parks maintenance
6. Street cleansing
7. Pest control
8. Cemeteries
9. Playgrounds and play equipment
10. Geographic Information System (GIS)
11 Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
I would like to thank you in advance for your help with this.
Yours faithfully,
DPatrick
Dear D Patrick
We acknowledge receipt of your email to Allerdale Borough Council:
Waste
If you have submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), your request
will be considered and you will receive our response within the statutory
timescale of 20 working days.
The reference number for your email is IAR553.
Should you have any further inquiries concerning this matter, please reply
to this email leaving the subject line unchanged.
Yours sincerely,
Allerdale Borough Council
Allerdale Borough Council
Allerdale House
Workington
CA14 3YJ
Telephone: 01900 326333
Dear D Patrick
Request 553
Further to your request I confirm that the Council has now considered
your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please see
responses below.
1. NO
2. Waste Services are run through a Council owned company Allerdale Waste
Services
3. Whitespace is the waste management solution, Webaspx is the routing
software
4. We are currently undergoing Local Government Reorganisation, and
mulitple waste environments etc will be merged.
But the date is 31/3/2027
5 Grounds/parks maintenance
Outsourced Contract
6. Street cleansing
Outsourced Contract
7. Pest control
In House prepared solution using Abavus MyCouncil Services
8. Cemeteries
Gower Epilog and Erasmus
9. Playgrounds and play equipment
Nothing in place
10. Geographic Information System (GIS)
Astun
11 Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Abavus MyCouncil Services
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Kind regards,
Christine Parker
Senior Business Support Information Governance
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