Student Loans Company appoints Atos as a Strategic Partner

London, Uk and Paris, France, 11 September 2020

The University student Loans Firm (SLC) has appointed Atos, a international chief in electronic transformation, to guidance the shipping and delivery of advancements to SLC’s customer interface and the involved technological know-how infrastructure. Atos will guidance the growth of its Purchaser Enablement Providers, with target on application growth. This is the very first stage of a multi-element procurement system to have interaction strategic partners across SLC’s technological know-how group.

In February, as element of its on-likely commitment to enhancing its service to clients, SLC introduced a competitive procurement system to supply a new strategic lover design. The new method will see the organisation operating with a small number of partners to build, supply and guidance its technological know-how estate and electronic companies to clients.

The bold programme will transform the business framework and shipping and delivery types leveraged across SLC’s technological know-how estate when operating with strategic partners, establishing enhanced capabilities although offering greater benefit for general public cash.

Stephen Campbell, Chief Details Officer at SLC claimed: “We were tremendously inspired by the range and strength of responses from bidders in the very first round of this procurement system. The appointment of Atos is the very first stage in this system as we undertake an bold method to do the job with a small number of strategic partners to build, supply and guidance our technological know-how estate and electronic companies. This system displays our commitment to enhancing the expertise for our clients and we seem ahead to progressing with additional procurements in the months forward.”

Clay Van Doren, CEO, Atos Uk and Eire claimed: “We are psyched by the prospect of our new strategic partnership method with University student Loans Firm to supply the customer interface techniques transformation it is looking for. This will elevate its service and overall featuring although also making certain that benefit is persistently shipped.”

Doing the job in conjunction with its partners in the Office for Schooling, Devolved Administrations and the Cabinet Place of work, SLC has formulated a procurement technique that provides the most correct, compliant, general public sector route to sector for every great deal within the programme, centered on the complexity and security of the in-scope companies. The second procurement is envisioned to be launched to the sector later in September 2020.

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Notes to editors

The procurement training to appoint the very first lover was done through the Crown Industrial Services’ (CCS) ePortal on Large amount 4a of the CCS’s Technologies Providers two (TS2) framework settlement.

The University student Loans Firm:

• Administers pupil finance on behalf of the Uk Authorities and the Devolved Administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Eire
• Has nine.4 million clients and manages a loan reserve in extra of £156.5 billion
• Procedures just about two million applications for pupil finance every calendar year
• Compensated out £9.4 billion in loans and grants to new and existing learners, as well as £10.5 billion in tuition fees to higher and additional instruction suppliers in the very last calendar year
• Employs in excess of 3,four hundred employees across web pages in Glasgow, Darlington and Llandudno Junction

About Atos

Atos is a international chief in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 staff members in seventy three international locations and once-a-year earnings of € twelve billion. European number one particular in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-Functionality Computing, the Team provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Facts, Business Purposes and Digital Place of work answers. In the Uk & Eire Atos delivers business technological know-how answers for some of the country’s most significant general public and private sector organisations The Team is the Worldwide Details Technologies Associate for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates below the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The function of Atos is to aid style the upcoming of the data house. Its experience and companies guidance the growth of information, instruction and research in a multicultural method and contribute to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Team permits its clients and staff members, and users of societies at huge to dwell, do the job and build sustainably, in a risk-free and secure data house.

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