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Consortium Membership and Governance
The CAPS Consortium limited is company that has as its core management team of investors some of the directors of the major UK bodyshop repair management systems vendors. Today these are:
Gary Lindsay Director of CAPS and MD of Autoflow
John Driscoll Director of CAPS of Bodyshop Management Solutions Ltd
Alan Hargreaves Director of CAPS and MD of EMACS.
Phil Starmer Director and Company Secretary of CAPS
Note..A small shareholding is available to ALL UK bodyshop management system vendors that agree to support the CAPS xml communication and its data standards.
The system vendors that already have created a CAPS interface for their system and therefore can already be positioned as a CAPS enabled bodyshop management system today are:
- Autoflow Ltd
- Suite 3,Sirius House
- Alderley Road
- Chelford, Cheshire
- SK11 9AP
- Tel 0870 458 0606
- Gary Lindsay
- web link
- Autosoft UK Ltd
- 5 Windsor Road
- Ealing
- W5 3UL
- Tel 0870 787 7588
- Rohit Shah
- web link
- Bodyshop Direct
- Unipart Group Ltd
- Unipart House
- Garsington Road
- Cowley, Oxford
- OX4 2PG
- Tel 01865 383538
- Andy Prizeman
- web link
- Concorde Informatics
- Stoneleigh
- 9 Halifax Road
- Brighouse
- West Yorkshire
- HD6 2AQ
- Tel 01484 405405
- Rob Parnaby
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- Bodyshop Management Solutions Ltd
- Regus House
- Victory Way, Admirals Park
- Dartford, Kent
- DA2 6qD
- Tel 0870 845 8141
- John Driscoll
- web link
- EMACS
- Unit 9
- Sharp Street
- Dewsbury
- WF13 1QZ
- Tel 01924 463419
- Alan Hargreaves
- web link
NOTE:
the remaining major repair management system vendor in the UK, Advance from PPG, has previously stated that once they get independent requests from their bodyshop customers for a CAPS connection they will write the CAPS xml interface.
1.1 The CAPS Network Capacity
The CAPS enabled bodyshop repair community is currently over 1100 of the premier UK bodyshop repair facilities. CAPS research has determined that of the current 5,500 UK bodyshops, the top 1,500 actually process and repair as much as 80% of the UK motor accident insurance claims. This means that today the CAPS network currently have the capacity to handle over 60% of the total UK crash repair market.
The CAPS Consortium currently has six out of the total eight UK repair management software companies as its members and therefore has an IT development and support resource pool of over 20 permanent staff, which would be the envy of many much larger single organisations.