Firm on Cloud Nine after contract win

MANCHESTER cloud services provider Outsourcery has been appointed to deliver a Microsoft Lync software-as-a-service solution to Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust via the G-Cloud framework.

The Spinningfields-based company will install the system via its O-Cloud PGA  OFFICIAL Internet Platform.

The Trust provides specialist mental health and community health services and employs more than 4,000 staff across 100 hundred sites. This is the first time the Trust has procured services using the G-Cloud framework.

The contract coincides with the launch of the UK Government’s new Contracts Finder portal, unveiled by cabinet office Minister, Francis Maude, the Prime Minister’s enterprise adviser, Lord Young and Outsourcery chief executive, Piers Linney.

“The G-Cloud framework provides significant benefits to all public sector organisations, whether at a national or local level by enabling them to engage with innovative (SMEs) such as Outsourcery that may not be on existing procurement frameworks,” said Linney.

“ With the launch of the revamped Contracts Finder portal, public sector opportunities will become less complicated and costly to bid for, making deals such as ours with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust more common.”