Fordway takes on major players in NHS Additional Supply, Capability and Capacity (ASCC) framework

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Issue Date: 11th August 2008

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11th August 2008 - UK ICT infrastructure specialist Fordway is proud to announce that it has been appointed to the National Health Service’s Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework. Fordway was accredited as one of only 38 officially approved IT systems suppliers for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and wider IT-based projects in the NHS.

Fordway has been approved under the categories of Network Infrastructure Services, Other Hardware Services and Consultancy as a result of its extensive experience and proven capabilities in these areas.

The accreditation places Fordway in direct competition for NHS contracts with companies including British Telecom, Fujitsu Services and Hewlett Packard. Fordway’s managing director Richard Blanford is untroubled by such competition, “The inclusion of Fordway in this framework is an acknowledgement from the NHS that sometimes the larger suppliers are not best placed to understand their complex needs and that an independent specialist like Fordway can provide a far more effective IT solution”.

Recent examples of Fordway’s work with NHS Trusts, which were instrumental in securing the accreditation, include successful projects with the Countess of Chester Acute Trust and Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust. In both Fordway provided server and data storage consolidation that significantly reduced the complexity and cost of managing their IT infrastructure, significantly improving the performance and resilience whilst ensuring considerably faster system recovery times.

Fordway is a leading UK supplier of IT and network infrastructure, services and expert consultancy. Fordway has been operating since 1991 and has offices in Surrey and Shropshire. For more information please visit Fordway’s website at: www.fordway.com.

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