Press release 13: DVLA wins 2006 CoreNet real estate award for innovation in real estate

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has won the prestigious CoreNet Innovation in Real Estate Award for its Non Territorial Working (NTW) Project. This award recognises DVLA’s achievement in introducing NTW for its staff across its Swansea Estate. This is being delivered through the Agency’s ‘Estates Transformation Project’, a multi million pound investment programme in the South Wales centre. This is an opportunity to deliver a combination of financial and cultural benefits through better use of space.

DVLA is one of the first central government organisations to implement such changes in an operational environment. DVLA has worked with IBM Business Consulting Services throughout the project from its inception in 2004 through to successful mobilisation in early 2005, and the current delivery phase.

Avril Beynon, HR & Estates Director of DVLA, said:

"NTW is a significant step for the Agency in our drive to advance good leadership and team working environments without the barriers of office walls. This award reflects the dedication to delivery excellence generated by our joint DVLA/IBM team and is testament to their ability to work effectively together.”

Simon Roberts, partner in IBM Business Consulting Services said:

“This award is tremendous recognition for the excellent job performed by the joint DVLA/IBM team. It reflects how DVLA is willing to pioneer non territorial working in an operational, transaction processing environment. It demonstrates how this kind of project can deliver significant financial and cultural benefit and points the way forward for others across the public sector.”

 
Notes to editors:
The award ceremony was held last night, 9 February 2006.

About DVLA:
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is an Agency within the Department for Transport (DfT) and supports the delivery of DfT’s objective: ‘transport that works for everyone’. It deals with over 95m vehicle transactions and over 22m driver transactions a year. The Agency employs over 5,200 staff in its Swansea headquarters, where around 80 percent are employed in the traditional processing of vehicle and driver licences.
For more information visit www.direct.gov/motoring

About IBM Business Consulting Services:
With consultants and professional staff in more than 160 countries globally, IBM Business Consulting Services (IBM BCS) is the world's largest consulting services organisation. IBM Business Consulting Services provides clients with business process and industry expertise, a deep understanding of technology solutions that address specific industry issues, and the ability to design, build and run those solutions in a way that delivers bottom line business value. During its association with this project IBM BCS has worked closely with the DVLA team to provide a broad range of programme and change management advisory services.
For more information visit www.ibm.com/bcs

For further information and/or photographs of the event please contact:
DVLA Press Office, 01792 782318