Powys Council leads lower costs mobile civic service

It’s the time to optimize mobile technology to help local organizations to deliver high efficiency-cost service. Many local authority organisations are already discovering the benefits of replacing paper with electronic devices for managing repairs to housing stock. It means that they achieve significant savings, greater productivity and more cost-effective use of resources.


Welsh Unitary Authority Powys Council leads the way in delivering mobile technology to operatives for lower costs and improved efficiency. Powys is quickly moving beyond this single valuable application to implement a mobile solution in areas as diverse as civic building repairs and inspections, legionella testing and clinical waste management.

At the same time Powys is providing web portal-based access to the information in its databases to the managers of all its buildings, from schools to leisure centres. For the first time, managers have complete view of the services and maintenance delivered to their specific building.

The solution is driven by forms technology provided by mobile technology company 1st Touch, integrated with back-office job costing software from ROCC. Based in Southampton, Hants, the company has enabled dozens of field workforce-based organisations to painlessly embrace new mobile technologies.