Recommendation 20

We note that modern property IT portals which are tried and tested are readily available. FCDO accepted that it is an organisation whose digital management of its large estate portfolio is not up to scratch and that it needs to transform how it works. It told us that its ambition is to get all its different data sets integrated and in 2022 it started developing a workplace management system that will collect all its estate data. FCDO focused at first on moving lease data into the new system but is now planning on adding all its data, including full asset registries, to the new workplace management system by 2028. FCDO told us that this system will help it to understand its maintenance requirements even further and allow it to explain to posts which assets they must proactively maintain.54 Project management