Mandator signs a general agreement with the City of Gothenburg

Mandator signs a general agreement with the City of Gothenburg to supply internet and IT services Mandator has signed a three-year agreement to supply internet and IT services to the City of Gothenburg's purchasing company. The agreement will be effective as of December 1999 and valid until the summer of 2002. Mandator expects that this agreement will lead to a sharp increase in today's already high volume which for 1999 is estimated at approximately SEK 12 million. The agreement includes the City of Gothenburg and its administrations and municipal companies as well as Gothenburg's Parish Administration and the municipality of Öckerö. Over the past few years The City of Gothenburg has made strategic investments in the structural build-up of its infrastructure. Its aim has been to turn Gothenburg into one of the IT society's leading cities. Today the City already enjoys well-integrated and systematized information management between its administrations and companies. Over the years, Mandator, along with ADB-Kontoret, has built a long and successful relationship with the City of Gothenburg. "Our relationship with the City of Gothenburg's IT Administration is a strong and close one. We work extremely well together and we will now have the opportunity to strengthen our cooperation even further. This agreement means that we can have an even longer term perspective in our goal to make Gothenburg one of Sweden's most modern IT cities," says Björn Larsson, Sales Manager, Mandator West. The agreement with the City of Gothenburg is yet another general agreement which complements Mandator's project-related offerings in a long-term and strategically positive way. The ability to simultaneously manage long and major undertakings as well as project-related offerings at the very forefront of IT is one of the determining factors for Mandator's long-term growth. Mandator AB For more information, please contact Björn Larsson, Sales Manager, Mandator West, Tel: +46-31-707 69 20, Mobile +46 705-88 57 20 or Niklas Flyborg, President / President of the Mandator Group, Tel: +46 8-402 31 00, Mobile +46 70-594 96 78. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/11/08/19991108BIT00070/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/11/08/19991108BIT00070/bit0002.pdf