A £150 million outsourcing deal has been passed by Bournemouth City Council, which will see private company Mouchel take the reins of several services in the city for the next ten years.

Mouchel, which in recent months has had its contracted with Middlesbrough City Council extended by an additional five years, will run Bournemouth’s revenues, benefits, ICT, and facilities management.

In December 2009, the company was also awarded a place on Buying Solutions’ Software Applications Solutions framework agreement, enabling it to vie for contracts across the public sector, including customer management, enterprise resource planning solutions, and information management applications.

The agreement with Mouchel was passed by Bournemouth City Council by 34-12, with Conservative councillors arguing the deal was necessary as the city tries to manage a 40% budget cut over the next ten years.

Mouchel executive director Tony Williams moved to reassure citizens, and claimed service users, "won’t see any changes on December 1. It will be the same staff, doing the same jobs, for the same residents, from the same place.

Source: http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/local-gov/bournemouth-begin-150m-outsourcing-deal-december