Whoever came up with the SWEEP acronym can have a job at El Reg
Highways England, the authority responsible for the nation’s roads and related infrastructure, is asking tech vendors to bid for a project worth up to £15m to replace its ageing pavement information management systems. Still running on an unsupported Windows 2003 system, the Highways Agency Pavement Management System (HAPMS) dates back more than 20 years and is responsible for recording the status of 6,920km of pavement in England. Highways England, which has an annual budget of around £4.5bn, is now looking for someone to build a new system based on commercial off-the-shelf software. The current system is based upon an outdated version of the Pitney Bowes Confirm product. It is integrated with the – wait for it – Software for the Whole-life Economic Evaluation of Pavements (SWEEP) solution.
