Westminster City Council, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ("the Tri-Borough Authorities") have aligned themselves as strategic partners and are about to embark on a number of different activities to streamline services and deliver savings.

These activities include a programme of work to look at a fully outsourced managed solution (including the hosting and processing of transactions) for a number of corporate managed services. The proposal is in conjunction with Project Athena, a pan London initiative to enure benefits are available across London. The target operating model for this project is for all London Authorities to use common processes and share access to multi-tenant, cloud-based, fully managed business services, used the same way to deliver shared support function(s).

Consequently, it is intended that all London Borough Authorities and other public sector bodies in London will have access to the framework agreement.

Potential service providers will need to be able to support this approach as well as develop innovations that will result in further efficiencies and savings. The project aims to source a solution that will facilitate support for the following core services which form four Lots: Transactional Finance/Accounting & Procurement Human Resources/Payroll Property/Asset Management Integration/Business Intelligence/Reporting.