West Sussex County Council has chosen Capita as its preferred partner in a 10-year back office outsourcing contract.
Under the contract, worth approximately £154 million in additional revenue, Capita will deliver services including HR, payroll, finance, online service delivery, office services, procurement and pensions administration.
The contract is expected to be signed later this month, with work starting from September.
Sarah Burnett, head of public sector outsourcing at analyst firm NelsonHall, said that the contract would have been highly contested.
“There aren’t many of these multi-process contracts coming through. Serco and Arvato would have been competitors and been very disappointed at not winning,” she said.
She added: “They haven’t said what savings they would have to achieve yet. I expect savings will be a big part of it.”
Burnett also believes that the breadth of the services being outsourced will mean a “reasonable level of staff transfer” will occur.
In October 2010, the council brought in Capita to provide IT services as part of a seven-year deal worth an ‘initial’ £56 million.
At the time, the council said the deal would provide a “flexible and sustainable IT service at significantly lower cost”.
Serco already has a desktop management contract with the council, and, through its acquisition of The Listening Company, a contract for West Sussex’s contact centre.
“Capita will have to work with them,” said Burnett.
Source: www.cio.co.uk
London 2012 Olympics: Aaron Cook's Games dream over as BOA ratifies nomination of Lutalo Muhammad - Daily Telegraph
“The results are plain for everyone to see, he is world No 1, European champion and has beaten 10 of the top 15 athletes in the Olympic rankings in his most recent fights. It makes a mockery of the taekwondo -80kg competition in the London Olympics.”
Cook would have been selected if the criteria was on performance, one of the GB Taekwondo selectors, Dr Steve Peters, said. Peters sat in all three meetings but did not vote because he said his role was as an ‘athlete advocate’.
“We all agreed that if world ranking and success in tournaments were the only selection criteria, then Aaron would be selected as he’s an outstanding athlete who could get gold at the Olympics,” said Peters. “All we’re saying is that there are two athletes who can achieve this.”
Peters said Muhammad was ultimately chosen several compelling reasons: he was improving at a rapid rate, including a victory over Cook (although Cook beat his rival soon afterwards) and that his height and flexibility give him an advantage to double tap and earn extra points for headshots in fights.
“People have been confusing the issue, thinking there is something secret or underhand or another agenda and it is nonsense. The fact Aaron is working outside of the academy has never come into the meeting, it is not an issue,” said Peters.
However the BOA has reserved the right to reconsider Muhammad’s selection – an unlikely situation – subject to the findings of an inquiry instigated by the World Taekwondo Federation. Last night Cook was considering his legal options.
The BOA chief executive Andy Hunt said: “After a thorough review, the panel is now sufficiently satisfied that the agreed selection procedures have been followed, and it is on that basis we are ratifying the nomination.”
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Cricket: Sussex, West Sussex and Hampshire league tables and results - Chichester Observer
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Sussex League Division 3 Burgess Hill 192-8 Crawley 196-8 Crawley won by two wickets - crawleyobserver.co.uk
ATIF Elahi emerged the hero for Crawley by smashing 83 to pave the way for Crawley’s third successive away victory.
Burgess Hills’ opening batsmen took the attacking route and played some aggressive shots increasing the score rate.
Crawley’s breakthrough came in the ninth over when Richard Genge bowled an inswinging yorker to bowl the batsmen round the leg.
Hill’s ace Jack Simpson was the next batsmen in, and cautiously Burgess Hill went about for the next ten overs taking the score to 81-2.
New bowler Razwan Hussain took the prize wicket of Simpson in his second ball owing to a sharp catch by Lewis behind the stumps.
After drinks Crawley halted the scoring-rate while getting two further wickets by Elahi (1-41 off 14 overs) and Razwan Hussain (3-26).
Better fielding and bowling saw the run-rate decline but wickets were hard to come by as the batsmen showcased their defence.
More breakthroughs near the end of the innings saw Burgess Hill finish on 192-8 off 53 overs.
Both teams were satisfied in the interval with their performances.
Crawley began their chase in the most appalling manner as Harry Choudhary played an ambitious shot of the second ball of the innings only to be caught on mid-on.
Elahi joined Tomkins (31) and their fruitful stroke-making took the game to Hill. Their only blemish was their running between the wickets.
Tomkins took a suicidal run only to be sent back to the pavilion.
At 82-2 of 20 overs Crawley looked in dominant position only to loose 5 batsmes for the score of of 21.
At 103-6 Crawley’s camp was looking very agitated although not out of the game as they had strong batting all the way down to 11.
Overseas player Genge joined Elahi who was looking sublime in the other end.
Genge opened his big shoulders to bludgeon a few boundaries in a useful partnership with Elahi before being stumped for a good 19.
Experienced Warren Shulze (22 not out) now joined Elahi, and unlike other batsmen, Schulze supported Elahi, and endeavoured to give the strike to him.
Crawley needed just 14 to win of three overs when Elahi got out from a beauty taking out his middle stump, for a superb and maybe match-winning innings of 83.
With only two wickets remaining, Yorkshire youngster Pearson came to the crease and looked at home, exhibiting brilliant technique and with Shulze finished the game of in style.
Crawley have dominated all the games they have played so far and are disappointed in not being further head of the pack.
They are currently joint leaders with Crowhurst Park after five games.
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London 2012: Tickets For Olympics Opening And Closing Ceremonies Go On Sale - huffingtonpost.co.uk
More tickets for some of the most popular events at the Olympic Games go on sale today.
Thousands of tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as for athletics, swimming, boxing, table tennis, volleyball and football at Wembley Stadium, will be available through the official Olympic website from 11am.
Prices range from £20 to £720 across the 96 available sessions, while tickets for the two ceremonies start at £995.
All the remaining tickets, both for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, are on sale on a first come, first served basis, and more will be available in coming weeks.
As with previous tickets, they can only be bought using a Visa card.
Locog, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, said more than eight million tickets have now been sold across both games.
But there are still about three million tickets left up for grabs, including more than half a million Olympic tickets, 1.2 million Paralympic tickets and 1.25 million tickets for Olympic football.
Locog commercial director Chris Townsend said: "There are still plenty of ways to join in and be part of London 2012.
"We are at advance stages of venue planning and these represent the final release of ceremonies and other sport tickets tickets.
"Over the next few weeks we will release further tickets for other Olympic sports and keep people informed when tickets are available.
"We are delighted with ticket sales to date, and have sold another 1 million tickets in the last four weeks, prioritising people who were unsuccessful last time around."
For more information or to buy, visit www.tickets.london2012.com.
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