Student Loans Company appoints Atos as a Strategic Partner

London, United kingdom and Paris, France, 11 September 2020

The Scholar Financial loans Company (SLC) has appointed Atos, a world-wide chief in digital transformation, to guidance the supply of advancements to SLC’s shopper interface and the connected technological know-how infrastructure. Atos will guidance the progress of its Customer Enablement Products and services, with focus on application progress. This is the to start with stage of a multi-portion procurement procedure to engage strategic companions across SLC’s technological know-how group.

In February, as portion of its on-going commitment to enhancing its assistance to buyers, SLC released a competitive procurement procedure to supply a new strategic spouse model. The new strategy will see the organisation working with a little selection of companions to establish, supply and guidance its technological know-how estate and digital services to buyers.

The bold programme will completely transform the industrial framework and supply models leveraged across SLC’s technological know-how estate when working with strategic companions, acquiring improved abilities whilst offering improved price for community money.

Stephen Campbell, Chief Information and facts Officer at SLC explained: “We have been significantly encouraged by the variety and energy of responses from bidders in the to start with spherical of this procurement procedure. The appointment of Atos is the to start with stage in this procedure as we undertake an bold strategy to do the job with a little selection of strategic companions to establish, supply and guidance our technological know-how estate and digital services. This procedure reflects our commitment to enhancing the knowledge for our buyers and we glance forward to progressing with more procurements in the months ahead.”

Clay Van Doren, CEO, Atos United kingdom and Ireland explained: “We are excited by the prospect of our new strategic partnership strategy with Scholar Financial loans Company to supply the shopper interface techniques transformation it is trying to get. This will elevate its assistance and in general supplying whilst also making sure that price is consistently sent.”

Functioning in conjunction with its companions in the Department for Education and learning, Devolved Administrations and the Cabinet Place of work, SLC has created a procurement system that presents the most proper, compliant, community sector route to industry for just about every good deal within the programme, primarily based on the complexity and security of the in-scope services. The next procurement is envisioned to be produced to the industry later in September 2020.

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For more details call the Scholar Financial loans Company push office on 0141 306 2120 / [email protected] kingdom

Notes to editors

The procurement workout to appoint the to start with spouse was executed through the Crown Professional Services’ (CCS) ePortal on Great deal 4a of the CCS’s Technology Products and services two (TS2) framework settlement.

The Scholar Financial loans Company:

• Administers scholar finance on behalf of the United kingdom Governing administration and the Devolved Administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
• Has nine.4 million buyers and manages a loan e book in excess of £156.five billion
• Processes almost two million purposes for scholar finance every single calendar year
• Paid out £9.4 billion in financial loans and grants to new and existing pupils, as effectively as £10.five billion in tuition fees to larger and more instruction vendors in the very last calendar year
• Employs about 3,400 workers across web-sites in Glasgow, Darlington and Llandudno Junction

About Atos

Atos is a world-wide chief in digital transformation with 110,000 staff in 73 international locations and yearly earnings of € 12 billion. European selection 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-General performance Computing, the Team presents conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Details, Enterprise Apps and Digital Place of work methods. In the United kingdom & Ireland Atos provides organization technological know-how methods for some of the country’s biggest community and personal sector organisations The Team is the Globally Information and facts Technology Associate for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates beneath the manufacturers Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The reason of Atos is to enable design the future of the details house. Its know-how and services guidance the progress of know-how, instruction and investigation in a multicultural strategy and add to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Team permits its buyers and staff, and associates of societies at massive to are living, do the job and establish sustainably, in a harmless and secure details house.

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