2022 Report details for project: National Underground Asset Register
| Project name | National Underground Asset Register - there are 2 reports for this project: 2022, 2023 |
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| Organisation | CO (D2 ) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2022 (data is from September 2021) |
| Category | Transformation - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | NUAR is a data-sharing platform to provide a combined, interactive, standardised digital view of the location and attributes of buried assets. A phased delivery programme includes development of a regional minimal viable product for North East England, Wales and London. The platform will then be enhanced and rolled out to the remaining regions in England and to Northern Ireland.NUAR's key intended outcomes include utility strike savings, on-site project savings, data exchange savings and back office efficiencies.The envisaged economic benefit of creating NUAR is £347m per annum through reducing the frequency of accidental strikes to underground pipes and cables. The NUAR programme is a key mission initiative of the UK Geospatial Strategy, aiming to realise the economic and social potential of better geospatial data in the infrastructure sector, to unlock economic value from geospatial data, and to improve access to better location data. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | The Senior Responsible Owner DCA rating at 21/22-Q4 is Amber The SRO's DCA rating at 21/22-Q4 is Amber. This is in line with the Gateway 4 Assurance Review conducted by COPO and the IPA in January 2022, and it is due to the challenges of onboarding the 650+ Asset Owners, and the uncertainty around securing legislation as a slot for the third parliamentary session was not secured. However, the first test+ platform will be available in April 2022, the product will undergo a cross government service standards assessment in the same month and a comprehensive plan of action to increase comms and engagement to onboard Asset Owners is being implemented. The team is exploring options for packaging the legislation with another Bill and a public consultation on the legislation will be published in Spring 2022. Engagement with Asset Owners might be slower than anticipated, however we have signed 88 Data Exploration Agreements (DEAs), 4 Data Distribution Agreements (DDAs) and received 41 data sets. |
| Start date | 2021-09-01 |
| End date | 2024-09-30 |
| Schedule text | Your project end-date is 30 SEP 2024. This is primarily due to the following factors: The programme's end-date at 21/22-Q4 remains the same - scheduled to finish on 30th September 2024. This is primarily due to the following factors:The programme is engaging with 650+ Asset Owners that need to sign up to a standardised legal framework for secure permission to share their asset data. The engagement takes a significant amount of time and it is phased, initially developing the product for North East England, Wales and London first, before the National Rollout.The phased approach allows for adequate time for the product development, set up of the services and ensuring that we have conducted sufficient exploration and testing for the product to satisfy the End Users' needs.We are exploring various legislation routes that could underpin the NUAR service offer. We are conducting a public consultation to increase our understanding of the Asset Owners and End Users needs to ensure that they are reflected in the policy instruction, as well as seek views on the NUAR funding model and future 'home'. |
| Baseline | £6.24m |
| Forecast | £5.87m |
| Variance | -6.00% |
| Variance text: | The budget variance is -6%. This is primarily due to the following factors:There has been a significant delay in resourcing the Delivery Unit for NUAR, which has resulted in underspend on both RDEL and CDEL lines.Part of the underspend in CDEL is due to moving the platform hosting line from the CDEL line to the RDEL line. Late delivery of the Data Transformation milestone has resulted in less than forecasted expenditure against this CDEL line.A decision was made to remove the management reserve line from the forecast as it was deemed not necessary for the delivery of the programme this financial year, resulting in further underspent in CDEL. |
| Whole Life Cost | £35.00m |
| WLCost text: | Your projects Baseline Whole Life Cost is 34.85 (£m). This is primarily due to the following factors: The programme's departmental agreed Whole Life Cost at 21/22-Q4 is £35m. This is primarily due to the following factors:A prime supplier has been appointed to deliver the platform, transform the data, engage with 650+ Asset Owners across the country. The value of the contract is £27.6 million (incl VAT) over 3 years.The programme is delivered by a dedicated Delivery Unit, specifically sourced for NUAR with cost of £3.2 million over 3 years.The legal framework required for the data sharing agreements is supported by the Welsh Government and the Greater London Authority, through grants, and the dedicated external Legal support. The total cost is £1.4 million over 3 years.The remainder of the budget is split between allocation for legislation, consultation, cost recovery model and setting up of the body to run NUAR post delivery; the monitoring and evaluation requirements; and the management reserve. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2022.csv |
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