Northampton Council & Cashless Catering, Northampton school meals.

Northamptonshire County Council & Nationwide Retail Systems Ltd will work together to provide an IT system to support the delivery of the Hot School Meals Service to the organisation across a variety of properties within the geographical boundaries of Northamptonshire.

Nationwide will provide:-

(i) System design.
(ii) Site surveys.
(iii) Supply of hardware for cashless EPOS and Revaluation machines.
(iv) Supply of all required software licenses.
(v) Consultancy for the development of system operating processes and system configuration.
(vi) Training of users and support personnel.
(vii) Maintenance and support services including ongoing upgrades to the system.
(viii) Implementation services (software and hardware installation etc)
(ix) Development of interfaces to NCC systems and web sites.
(x) Act as single primary supplier of the system.
(xi) Network connectivity services where required by the system that cannot be met provided by stake holder organisations (e.g. NCC, Schools etc)
(xii) Hosted/managed services – NCC wish to investigate the possibility and potential advantages of either the whole or parts of the solution being provided as a hosted or managed service.

It is envisaged that an integrated school meals system will be needed to support the processes in at least 226 schools to produce about 32 000 meals daily. The system may be considered as consisting of a number of components supporting a number of business functions.