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Helping you transform public services

 

With IT and Telecommunications central to reshaping service delivery around the needs of citizens, it's important that you have a partner that you can trust and rely on. As a leading provider of communications solutions under the Specialist Solutions Framework Agreement, we have an excellent track record of helping Local Government to transform public services. We boast long established partnerships and a respected reputation with many local authorities, allowing us to have a clearer insight than most into Local Government. Maybe that's why we work with 209 out of the 240 local authorities that are located on our network.

 

Dudley CouncilWe understand that Local Government is often required to deliver complex projects like joining up service delivery across multiple channels like the internet and contact centres, while still achieving the Best Value goals set by central government. Here's some of the areas where we can help:

 

  • Make citizens more secure through our IP CCTV solutions, so that live and recorded video images can be stored, digitally and viewed securely anywhere on your network.
  • Deliver consistent customer service through your contact centres, with intelligent call routing that ensures that calls are always routed to the right place. What's more, we can also provide 0800,0845,0870, 0300 and other non-geographic numbers.
  • Keep your best people by offering them flexibility through our IP Multimedia solutions for collaborative and remote working.
  • Securely transfer information between offices and departments with our fully managed IPVPN solutions.
  • From desktop to desktop structured cabling solutions to wireless and unified communications, we've successfully delivered more than 600 major LAN projects as well as being one of the very few providers with Cisco Gold Partner status.
  • As a leading provider of both Wide Area and Local Area Networks, we can take a true end-to-end view of your requirements, whether they are for individual offices or entire towns, cities or other metropolitan regions.

 

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And here are just some of our successes with our local government clients:

 

  • Birmingham City Council - we delivered a regional Centrex managed voice solution to Europe's largest local authority, with 20,000+ users and over 500 sites.
  • Cambridgeshire County Council - we provided a fully managed broadband network service to span the county of Cambridgeshire, with secure managed gateways to partners such as the NHS, regional education networks (E2BN) and suppliers.
  • Luton Borough Council - we provided a Metro Ethernet VPN Wide Area Network (WAN) between the Council’s Town Centre buildings, 80 local schools and other council properties.
  • North Lanarkshire Council - we deployed one of the largest IP CCTV solutions in Europe, using Metro Ethernet VPN to enable viewing, management and recording of multiple CCTV schemes throughout the North Lanarkshire region. 
  • Hertfordshire County Council – we provide managed internet access, across all schools in the Hertfordshire region.

 

Read our case studies to learn more about our work with the public sector.

 

Our solutions

We have over 15 years' experience of providing solutions for the public sector using our state-of-the-art network. Our dedicated public sector division enables public sector organisations to deliver citizen centric eGovernment services by:

 

  • Providing access to the community through multiple channels of communication.
  • Joining up government organisations and departments to facilitate the effective flow of information.
  • Providing links with suppliers to maximise efficient procurement methods.

 

We boast dedicated, specialist teams who focus specifically on central and local government. The right solution for you is designed by our business solutions consultants, who are fluent in the latest technology. Together, we can transform the delivery of public services.