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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Project EDAM
Brian DeardenHead 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