Softcat selected to supply servers and storage to the education sector
Marlow, UK, 30 January 2012 – The Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) has appointed Softcat among a select group of suppliers to provide network hardware and services, including servers and data storage, to a wide range of institutions involved in further education throughout the UK.
The ‘Network Hardware & Services inc. Servers & Data Storage’ framework contract, which Softcat won following a robust tendering process, will run for at least two years with options to run for another two years. It will see institutions within further education, academies, private schools, free schools, British museums, adult education colleges and other education institutions benefit from Softcat’s products and services in the framework LOTs covering servers, enterprise storage, maintenance and support, and consultancy.
The contract is the second that the CPC has awarded to Softcat in the last year, having already selected the IT reseller for desktop hardware and peripherals. Softcat is now following through on its commitment to expand and grow its service offering into further education and the wider education space.
Andy Bruen, Softcat’s public sector frameworks manager, stated, “The framework offers us an invaluable vehicle with which to shine and excel within the wider education sector. Historically our core competencies have been seen to be in the server and storage space, where we directly employ 30 or more comprehensively qualified in-house engineering professionals, and retain apex vendor accreditation. Our education customer base can only benefit from Softcat’s service delivery through CPC’s brand new IT framework.”
Softcat is one of only three organisations in the UK that hold HP’s Professional Services Partner status, as well as VMware Premier Partner status, and recently won VMware’s prestigious ‘Partner of the Year’ award. Other accolades it has won in the last year include Dell UK and EMEA Partner of the Year, Symantec’s Commercial Partner of the Year, and being the first reseller to retain ‘Reseller of the Year’ in consecutive years at the CRN Channel Awards.
For more information please contact:
Robert Hayward
Resonates SLM Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 898 362
softcat@resonates.com
www.resonates.com
About Softcat
Softcat (www.softcat.com) is a leading provider of software licensing, hardware, security and related IT services. Softcat, founded in 1993 by chairman and majority shareholder Peter Kelly, remains privately owned and currently employs more than 400 people. It achieved a turnover in excess of £200 million in its last financial year and has been profitable since inception, resulting in a strong balance sheet and very firm financial foundations.
The company sells and supports products and solutions from all the world's leading IT companies. On all its portfolio products and solutions it offers a full range of services, including advice and guidance, technical design, product sourcing, implementation, support and project management. It enjoys a trading relationship with over 1,500 longstanding customers, predominantly from the UK corporate sector but also including large enterprises, small businesses and public sector organisations.
As an organisation Softcat cares passionately about two things – outstanding employee satisfaction and world class customer service. It believes the former drives the latter.
About CPC
The Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) (http://www.cpc.salford.ac.uk/) is owned by and run in the main on behalf of the further education sector. The CPC operates under a board containing four college finance directors, the chair of the FE Directors of Finance Group, Peter Brewer (managing director of the CPC), a representative from the procurement team at the Association of Colleges, a purchasing advisory group elected member of procurement staff from an institution, and an institution's principal.
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