Northgate Information Solutions announced as preferred bidder for ICT provision in Kent County Council’s Building Schools for the Future programme |
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RNS 19-Dec-2007 - [Stock Exchange Announcements] Northgate Information Solutions announced as preferred bidder for ICT provision in Kent County Council’s Building Schools for the Future programme Northgate Information Solutions, the UK’s leading supplier of specialist software and IT services for the Human Resources, Education and Public Services markets, has been announced as Kent County Council’s (KCC) preferred bidder for the supply of ICT in the first phase of the £1.8 billion Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. The ICT element of the contract is worth £31m. The new £600 million public private partnership consisting of KCC, Land Securities Trillium, Partnerships for Schools (PfS) and Northgate will refurbish or rebuild secondary schools and transform the delivery of education in the Gravesham, Swale and Thanet districts by 2014. Northgate and Land Securities Trillium was chosen as Kent’s preferred bidder after a stringent selection and scoring process in line with European Union procurement rules. Northgate already supplies managed services to over 1,200 school and college networks across the UK and this is their third BSF contract. The announcement comes in the wake of Northgate's BSF contract wins to supply ICT managed services to Bristol and Leicester City Councils. Chris Stone, Chief Executive of Northgate Informaiton Solutions said said: “We are delighted to be a part of the preferred bidder consortium for Kent. Northgate are in an outstanding position to supply state of the art ICT managed services across the county. We will be able to challenge the thinking of what is possible with ICT provision, allow teachers to get back in the classroom and teach, and involve the whole community in their children’s education.” --- Ends---
Northgate, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, employs over 6,000 staff and operates in 46 countries across 5 continents. Northgate has approximately 4,500 large/medium customers and approximately 10,500 small to medium enterprise (SME) customers worldwide. Northgate delivers Human Resources solutions to many of the world’s largest organisations, as well as working with 90% of the UK local authorities and all of the UK’s regional police forces. Northgate Education, Northgate’s specialist Education division is a leading provider of managed services and solutions in the UK. It provides technology services to over 1,200 schools, with more than 350,000 teachers and learners successfully supported by the company. Northgate provides services to every school in Northern Ireland through C2k, the largest and most comprehensive e-learning initiative ever implemented in the UK, is providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) managed services to Bristol City Council as part of the government's Building Schools for the Future Programme (BSF), and to over 150 education sites in Hartlepool, from primary schools through to further education. Northgate is the preferred bidder for ICT for Leicester BSF. In January 2007, Northgate were awarded an ISO 20000-1 accreditation by the British Standards Institution, for provision of IT service management activities. |
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