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Early last week the DCSF announced the award of the ISPP aggregator to Tribal Group. This contract covers providing the central infrastructure to take information from all ECD’s and FSD’s for use in the DirectGov website and for sharing between authorities.

This is good news for our development schedule, as it now means that the interoperability framework is approaching finalisation and over the next few months Tribal will be providing us with a environment against which we can test our evince ISPP integration. Our plan is to have everything in place for the March release of evince (which will include the FSD) so that we can get final accreditation from the DCSF during the vendor testing phase scheduled for March to May next year.

Last week’s ISPP working groups also saw a first draft of the ISPP test plan, along with significant discussion within the vocabulary working group around how FSDs would aggregate together under DirectGov. The DCSF has appointed a consultant who is currently working up an agreed common taxonomy which we’ll be supporting through taxonomy mapping functionality within evince.

We plan to contact all our customers in the next few months to schedule in testing once the ISPP test plan has been finalised, currently LAs are expected to test sometime between June and August next year. If you have any questions about the ISPP or how evince will integrate with it, then please drop us a line.