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Dudley Contract Award
Dudley Contract Award.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 7573W RM PLC 25 November 2010 \n \n\nRM chosen as school ICT provider by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council\nRM has been selected as preferred bidder for DGfL 3, the next stage of the Dudley Grid for Learning project. RM was originally awarded a contract to deliver DGfL in 1999 and has provided managed ICT services to schools in Dudley since. The new contract is expected to be worth up to £30m over ten years to RM's Learning Technologies business, and was awarded following the completion of a comprehensive competitive procurement process.\nDGfL3 will provide and manage sophisticated ICT infrastructure, software and services for primary, secondary, special schools and Pupil Referral Units in Dudley. It will build on the reputation and achievements of the existing DGfL, providing both continuity of service and a new level of innovation. The overall value to RM will depend on the exact combination of services individual schools select. \nTerry Sweeney, Chief Executive of RM, said:\n\"Dudley has been a key strategic partner of RM since we were chosen to provide the Dudley Grid for Learning in 1999. We are proud to have been involved in the success of DGfL which currently provides services to nearly all of the schools in Dudley. It is great news that we have been given the opportunity to provide services for DGfL3, and we are excited at the prospect of delivering new levels of service excellence and choice for schools based on best of breed technologies.\"\nCouncillor Liz Walker, cabinet member for children's services, said: \n \"DGfL3 will support Dudley's 'Vision 2025', which is intended to provide a step change in the nature of provision and in outcomes for children and young people. We are putting education at the heart of our thinking, with the aim that by 2025 all learners in the Borough will be ambitious, confident and committed to learning. Providing them with great learning facilities - including new technology - is fundamental to our plans.\"\n \nFor further information, please contact: \n\n\n\n\nIain McIntosh/Phil Hemmings, RM plc\n\n\n08450 700300\n\n\n\n\nJuliet Clarke/James Macey White, Financial Dynamics\n\n\n020 7831 3113\n\n\n\n\n \nNotes:\n1. The RM Group is a leading provider of educational solutions that help teachers to teach and learners to learn. RM works closel...