In the aftermath of the devastating 2011 earthquake, Chistchurch City Council is seeking to accelerate its digitisation program to deal with a spike in property enquires.

The Council, New Zealand’s second largest, has a typical workflow where property enquiries are retrieved from physical storage and scanned into a TRIM EDRMS.

The impact of the earthquake and subsequent rebuilding is expected to see the scanning workload bump to more than 4 million A3/A4 pages in the 2011/12 financial year (plus more than 280,000 A2 pages). Subsequent years are expected to see this settle back down to around 3 million pages per annum.

To handle this workload, Christhurch City Council is seeking an organisation that will deliver physical records management, archive storage and digitisation and scanning services as a single managed service.

The Council has also noted a strong preference for the co-location of these services.