\n Shared Resources Services, the technology partnership formed by\u00a0a number of\u00a0Gwent councils and the police, is to approve global tech giant Amazon as its preferred\u00a0procurement\u00a0partner for two AI programmes.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n It will use AWS Professional Services for an\u00a0AI Management Hub, to work across the various public service partners, and\u00a0a Pro Services Partner for the Digital Front Door initiative intended to deal with queries from the public.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The contract is being awarded without competition under a\u00a0legal exemption as the computer systems used across the four councils, as well as Gwent Police and the Office\u00a0of the Police and Crime Commissioner, are too closely integrated with their existing providers to make a competitive bidding process viable.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The AI Management Hub is intended to allow artificial intelligence to be integrated safely into systems used by all the partners\u00a0who at present have been using free AI tools which the Shared Resource Service\u00a0describes as an \u201cavoidable risk\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n It also said individual approaches to using AI, across partners, means\u00a0it used without integration or oversight which also leads to duplication and uneven progress.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The\u00a0first year of the\u00a0contract will\u00a0establish\u00a0the secure AI management hub and core AI\u00a0tools for\u00a0staff as a controlled\u00a0replacement for free AI tools and\u00a0establish\u00a0the Front Door.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The SRS provides technology services for Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire,\u00a0Newport<\/a>\u00a0and Torfaen councils as well as the police and police and crime commissioner.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n Monmouthshire County Council<\/a> has already committed to spending\u00a0nearly \u00a3600,000\u00a0on AI services through the SRS<\/a> over three years.\n<\/p>\n \n That will\u00a0include a system to collect and collate data already collected by councils on children.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n Details of the contract for the partnership are contained in a report published by Torfaen Borough Council which\u00a0states\u00a0year one cost of the\u00a0programme will\u00a0be\u00a0\u00a3318,000 per partner or \u00a31.272m across all SRS partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shared Resources Services, the technology partnership formed by\u00a0a number of\u00a0Gwent councils and the police, is to approve global…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}