Amor secures major deal with Coventry regulator

TECHNOLOGY group Amor has secured a £3.9m professional services contract with Coventry-based regulator Ofqual.

The four-year deal will see Amor, which also has a new base in Coventry, develop a regulatory IT system and providing ongoing technical support for the education organisation.

The contract will be managed from Amor’s headquarters at India of Inchinnan, Glasgow, and its new office in Coventry.

The Coventry office will be manned by a team of sales staff, project managers, developers and consultants, whose remit will be to service established clients and grow this public sector practice.

Amor chief executive John Innes said the Coventry office was ideally located for working with Ofqual.

Amor is also hoping the new office’s close proximity to a number of other existing and potential clients within the education sector could create further opportunities for business.

Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications, examinations and assessments in England, became a non-ministerial Government department on April 1 and now reports directly to Parliament. It said the project was key to its new role.

The work was secured through the Buying Solutions UK public sector national procurement framework agreement – on which Amor is the only Scottish-based business approved to supply ICT consultancy and delivery services.

The deal is expected to reinforce Amor’s growth ambitions, with a drive under way to recruit staff for new professional services roles, including IT project managers and developers.

Amor will also host the system in its comprehensive new data centre, based in Aberdeen.

The new contract comes on the back of other significant wins in the education and public sectors for Amor.