Manukau opts for $14m organiser

By ADAM GIFFORD

The Manukau City Council is poised to buy a $14 million Peoplesoft system to manage its finances, core services such as rating and water, and relationships with citizens, communities and customers.

Corporate resources director Dean Myburgh said the decision would be made by the council's corporate business committee next Tuesday.

Manukau City services a population of 280,000 and has an annual budget of $200 million.

It invited proposals this year for a financial management information system, after a narrower, tender-based procurement process was rejected by the market.

Mr Myburgh said six vendors responded and Oracle and Peoplesoft made the shortlist.

The system had to be able to cope with what Manukau calls "C-cubed relationship management", where council officers might need to deal with people as citizens, as members or representatives, and as customers of services such as libraries.

Manukau has spent $2 million on a Teradata data warehouse to bring some order to its information, which is contained in more than 100 systems.

Mr Myburgh said the new system had to interface with the data warehouse.

The Peoplesoft implementation would probably take two to three years, with a total budget of about $14 million for software, hardware and services.