Project EDAM

Brian DeardenHead of Category

Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges

Project EDAM

Before:• No national asset register• No national system for naming lab

equipment estate.• Strategically important equipment being left

unsupported.• Supplier-controlled market for support• Less oversight on funding applications.• Little sharing of equipment/facilities.

Project EDAM

Motivating factors:• Increasing costs of equipment

maintenance/support/servicing.• Wakeham review restrictions on

grant funding application.• Increased oversight on grant funding

restrictions.• Desire to increase instances of

equipment sharing.

Project EDAM

Proposed aims:• Create taxonomy for categorising

equipment.• Create database of lab equipment

estate and roll out to sector.• Maintain database• Identify collaborative maintenance

opportunities.

Project EDAM

Progress to date:• Created taxonomy for categorising

equipment.• Data collection.• Created database.• www.edam.ac.uk

Project EDAM

Next Steps:• Provide access to database to

colleagues.• Identify opportunities for

collaborative approach to maintenance.

• Contract for collaborative support/maintenance/servicing agreements

Project EDAM

Benefits:• Lower cost of servicing• Asset management tool.• Facilitate collaboration.

Project EDAM

Project EDAM

Project EDAM

Brian Dearden

Head of Category: APUC0131 442 8930

bdearden@apuc-scot.ac.uk