Lambeth council has launched a procurement for a framework to support a shared service operation of an Oracle e-Business Suite for itself and several other London boroughs.

It is part of Programme Athena, under which a group of councils in the capital are moving towards common processes and procedures for HR, financials and procurement using a shared enterprise resource planning system.

The main purpose of the procurement is to contract an integrator to support the transition to a shared R12 version of the Oracle e-Business suite when support for the R11 version ends in November 2013.