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Version 1 has secured another significant contract, this time with the Department of Education in Ireland. The €102.7m (c. £87m) contract, which runs for up to 15 years, follows the company's recent success with the Scottish Government (see Version 1 lands major Scottish Government digital deal).
The contract will see Version 1 lead on the provision of an integrated human capital management (HCM) and payroll software as a service (SaaS) solution to support over 4,000 schools’ Boards of Management, paying 155,000 school employees, as well as retired employees from primary and post-primary schools across Ireland. The programme is intended to streamline back-end processes and systems and provide users with a more effective service. As part of this, employees will be provided with new self-service solutions, including online access to their payroll information.
Version 1 will be responsible for the design, development, integration and management of the solution. It will work in partnership with The Access Group on the major change programme, who will provide the HCM and payroll software.
The shift to SaaS aligns with the government's ‘Connecting Government 2030: A Digital and ICT Strategy for Ireland's Public Service’, which included a core design principle of digital by default and cloud-first. This approach builds on the target for 90% of applicable services being consumed online—a goal established in ‘Harnessing Digital - The Digital Ireland Framework’. The strategy also tasked departments with being more proactive and progressive in embracing cloud.
Although much of Version 1’s recent growth has been driven by its impressive performance in the UK public sector, including major deals with Companies House, National Highways and Scottish Government, the Dublin-headquartered business is an established strategic supplier to the Irish government. The new contract will reinforce this position and place it at the heart of digital transformation in the Department of Education, which has been a customer of Version 1 since 2016.
Posted by: Dale Peters at 10:00
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