Northgate named Preferred Bidder for 5 Year Primary Schools Contract in Northern Ireland
15 February 2006
Northgate Information Solutions plc (“Northgate”), a leading supplier of software applications and outsourcing solutions to the public safety, local government and human resources markets, has been named preferred bidder by C2k (formerly Classroom 2000) to provide a managed IT service to all primary schools in Northern Ireland.
The 5-year contact, called Lot 6, is for the provision of managed IT services to all primary schools in Northern Ireland. Lot 6 covers six counties, 883 primary school sites, which account for approximately 150,000 children, 14,000 computers, 3,000 printers and the associated local network infrastructure. It will enable all schools in Northern Ireland to be integrated into the online environment via a single technology platform.
Chris Stone, Chief Executive of Northgate, commented:
"We are delighted to have reached preferred bidder status with C2k and are currently in negotiations to reach a contractual agreement. This will be the largest managed IT service contract in education in terms of numbers of schools supported. It will establish Northgate as the principle IT supplier to the education market in Northern Ireland and position us well for expansion into the UK education market."
Northgate has an existing contract with C2k to provide an IT managed service to all secondary (230) and special schools (48) in Northern Ireland. This is due to complete in November 2008.
