The Christchurch massacre was a huge tragedy for New Zealand and demanded a rapid response from the government. One major response was the banning of certain types of semi-automatic firearms.

This agency was responsible for identifying, valuing, recovering, and compensating all retailers that held these kinds of firearms, but had no tools to support a process that needed high levels of accuracy, reliability and could be available around the country.

KPMG worked with this agency to understand the needs of an application to support the buy-back of firearms from retailers. Faced with just an eight-week window from initiation to go-live, KPMG built a full stack web application, hosted on Azure, designing, and implementing every aspect of system This included cloud infrastructure using Azure App Service, Azure Functions Integration with Azure B2C to enable authentication to the DCP app via an external directory of users, backend and frontend application development using Node.js, Express and Passport.js, and data modelling and live dashboard reporting using Power Bi Embed.

KPMG developed and deployed the application to schedule enabling this agency to fulfil its commitments to the government and to the wider community.  The application enabled dealers to notify this agency of prohibited firearms and enabled them to progress and track applications through the compensation process.  Real-time Power BI dashboards reported on the status of dealer applications, quantities of notified stock and the value of compensation paid. It also integrated with this agency’s current scheduling tools to enable firearms pick up from retailers.