Delivery of Bushfire Management Planning and Reporting System (BMPRS) to SAFECOM

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SAFECOM awarded a contract to Nova Systems for the Bushfire Management Planning and Reporting System (BMPRS).

Under the Fire and Emergency Services Act 2005 each Bushfire Management Committee (BMC) was required to develop, implement and report on a Bushfire Management Area Plan (BMAP); all nine BMCs had BMAPs identifying assets at risk and mitigation treatments.

The BMCs were required to report to the State Bushfire Coordination Committee (SBCC) on any failures to implement BMAP activities.

An Independent Review into South Australia’s 2019–20 bushfire season identified that no single, consistent system existed for recording or reporting delivery of bushfire mitigation actions accessible to the 115 agencies recorded as responsible for delivering those actions.

The BMPRS provided BMCs, SBCC member agencies and the committees with a web-based spatial data platform that captured the full cycle of bushfire risk management, recorded the status of risk treatment activities and enabled statewide reporting on mitigation work.