NHS Health Scotland awards contract for information management solution
Maindec partnership to implement hosted Microsoft platform in support of business improvement programme
NHS Health Scotland has signed a managed service contract with Maindec to deliver a cloud-based solution that will be used to drive improvements in information and content management processes.
The deal will see Maindec partner with brightsolid Online Technology and Company Net to implement a hosted Microsoft platform in support of NHS Health Scotland’s strategic business improvement programme.
The private cloud-based hardware and software solution will provide the board with a configurable platform based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Lync and Sharepoint.
A spokesman fort NHS Health Scotland said: “As the preventative health agenda gained momentum in Scotland, our services grew quite significantly, but our back office systems and processes, in particular, did not keep pace with that growth. As such, we recognised our overall organisational efficiency and effectiveness was being held back and we needed a strategic way to address this disparity.”
The contract was put out to tender via the Scottish Government’s IT Managed Services Framework, through which Maindec is one of 10 approved companies.
Maindec has partnered with brightsolid because of its experience in securely hosting applications as a service for public sector clients across Scotland, and Company Net because of its credentials in configuring and developing Microsoft software. All three parties will work together to deliver the hosted Microsoft platform to NHS Health Scotland, with Maindec acting as prime supplier.
The spokesperson said: “Our relationship with the Maindec partnership has so far been good, through the procurement stages, the contract negotiations and now the early engagement and implementation planning phases. The Maindec team shares our ambition for this programme of work and they really understand our objectives – of delivering improved organisational performance and services innovation through the effective use of technology.”
