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Integrated Services

Comprises all our major central government contracts, our property consultancy, contact centres, our portfolio of HR services: our resourcing businesses, integrated HR solutions, HR and payroll administration, learning & development and outplacement services.

Integrated services
(excluding HR solutions and property consultancy)

  2009
£m
2008
£m
Turnover 340.0 339.5
Underlying operating profit 55.0 54.4
Underlying operating margin 16.2% 16%
Capex 6.8 8.9

HR solutions

  2009
£m
2008
£m
Turnover 280.6 258.2
Underlying operating profit 26.2 24.2
Underlying operating margin 9.3% 9.4%
Capex 1.4 2.0

Property consultancy – Capita Symonds

  2009
£m
2008
£m
Turnover 258.1 262.2
Underlying operating profit 23.1 22.8
Underlying operating margin 9.0% 8.7%
Capex 2.1 2.7

2009 performance

TV Licensing and CRB contracts: We have continued to maintain high levels of service, meeting and exceeding our KPIs and delivering effective frontline solutions. Our back office systems continue to robustly support the correct processing of applications, payment and enquiries.

BBC Audience Services: We were successful in being re-awarded the contract to deliver audience services for BBC. From January 2010 we will move to one site in Belfast with a satellite office in Glasgow.

Learner Support Programme: Since assuming responsibility for administering this scheme in November 2008, the contract is progressing well. We currently process and pay over 600,000 learners per week, on behalf of 4,000 learning provider institutions, and deal with approximately 2 million calls.

Home Access Grant Administration: This contract to administer and market the grant on behalf of Becta has started well, with a controlled launch and take up of the scheme. We have developed interfaces with multiple equipment suppliers to process grant payments which will total £136m over the period of the contract.

Call Centre and Specialist Services: Our partnership with eircom, which commenced in 2005, was further strengthened with a contract extension and a new contract for customer retention activity.

Resourcing businesses: Despite difficult market conditions, our businesses generally performed well. Most of our clients are in the public sector where we have placed over 1,500 roles at a senior level. Our contract with the Office of National Statistics for the 2011 Census is well underway, with the first rehearsal successfully completed in October. We are also working with BBC for the recruitment of over 1,500 staff for the new BBC media centre based in Salford.

Veredus: Delivering senior executive search and interim management solutions, performed well in 2009, recruiting over 230 board level appointments including 27 CEOs, placing over 280 interim managers and undertaking 120 psychological assessments.

Integrated HR Solutions: We are playing a key role in our partnership with Sheffield CC delivering HR and payroll services for the Council and the surrounding schools. Over 100 HR and payroll staff transferred to Capita.

Learning & development businesses: Secured a number of new contracts including with the VW Group to deliver all commercial training to their network of car dealerships. We also broadened our relationship with BAA with the award of the managed service for all external training spend over the next 3 years. For DWP Job Centre Plus, we assessed over 21,000 people in a 7 month period, our largest ever assessment contract.

Capita Symonds: Has performed well in difficult market conditions winning a number of significant assignments. A multidisciplinary team is working on 2 of the 4 portals on the London’s Crossrail project, awarded via Crossrail’s Design Consultant Framework.

We have provided lead consultant, strategic partnering, educational, building design and architectural services on several Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programmes, 4 of which have been award winning.

We are providing a number of services on the £11bn Defence Training Review (DTR) project at RAF St. Athan in South Wales. The new academy is the result of the Government’s major initiative to reorganise the entire training programme for the Armed Forces.

2010 priorities

  • To maintain and exceed current levels of service across our major contracts
  • To complete the transition and transformation programme for BBC Audience Services on time and integrate new and revised services
  • To assist Becta meet their strategic aim to provide some 270,000 grants for personal computers and internet connectivity to low-income families to support learning
  • Continue to penetrate the Local Government sector offering our portfolio of HR services: learning & development, payroll and HR administration and resourcing
  • Continue to make investment in bringing together a number of our HR operations in more efficient operating units underpinned with a shared CRM technology platform
  • Across Capita Symonds continue to build major programme management capability and niche capability in growth sectors such as renewable energy, waste management and transport technology through acquisition and recruitment
  • Continue to tender our services across the BSF framework.