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Project EDAM

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.

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Project EDAM

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  1. Project EDAM Brian Dearden Head of Category Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Project EDAM Progress to date: • Created taxonomy for categorising equipment. • Data collection. • Created database. • www.edam.ac.uk

  6. Project EDAM Next Steps: • Provide access to database to colleagues. • Identify opportunities for collaborative approach to maintenance. • Contract for collaborative support/maintenance/servicing agreements

  7. Project EDAM Benefits: • Lower cost of servicing • Asset management tool. • Facilitate collaboration.

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  10. Project EDAM Brian Dearden Head of Category: APUC 0131 442 8930 bdearden@apuc-scot.ac.uk

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