Student Loans Company appoints Atos as a Strategic Partner

London, British isles and Paris, France, eleven September 2020

The Scholar Loans Corporation (SLC) has appointed Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, to support the supply of improvements to SLC’s buyer interface and the linked technological know-how infrastructure. Atos will support the enhancement of its Shopper Enablement Companies, with concentrate on application enhancement. This is the first stage of a multi-component procurement system to have interaction strategic companions throughout SLC’s technological know-how team.

In February, as component of its on-heading dedication to increasing its assistance to prospects, SLC launched a competitive procurement system to provide a new strategic spouse design. The new method will see the organisation doing the job with a small variety of companions to build, provide and support its technological know-how estate and digital companies to prospects.

The ambitious programme will rework the industrial framework and supply designs leveraged throughout SLC’s technological know-how estate when doing the job with strategic companions, building enhanced abilities whilst providing better worth for general public funds.

Stephen Campbell, Main Details Officer at SLC explained: “We have been tremendously encouraged by the range and energy of responses from bidders in the first spherical of this procurement system. The appointment of Atos is the first stage in this system as we undertake an ambitious method to operate with a small variety of strategic companions to build, provide and support our technological know-how estate and digital companies. This system demonstrates our dedication to increasing the encounter for our prospects and we glance ahead to progressing with more procurements in the months ahead.”

Clay Van Doren, CEO, Atos British isles and Ireland explained: “We are thrilled by the prospect of our new strategic partnership method with Scholar Loans Corporation to provide the buyer interface devices transformation it is looking for. This will elevate its assistance and in general giving whilst also ensuring that worth is continually sent.”

Functioning in conjunction with its companions in the Office for Education and learning, Devolved Administrations and the Cabinet Office environment, SLC has developed a procurement method that delivers the most suitable, compliant, general public sector route to sector for just about every whole lot inside of the programme, primarily based on the complexity and steadiness of the in-scope companies. The second procurement is expected to be released to the sector later on in September 2020.

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For more facts get hold of the Scholar Loans Corporation press office on 0141 306 2120 / [email protected] isles

Notes to editors

The procurement exercise to appoint the first spouse was conducted by way of the Crown Business Services’ (CCS) ePortal on Great deal 4a of the CCS’s Technology Companies two (TS2) framework agreement.

The Scholar Loans Corporation:

• Administers scholar finance on behalf of the British isles Govt and the Devolved Administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
• Has nine.4 million prospects and manages a mortgage e book in excessive of £156.5 billion
• Processes practically two million applications for scholar finance each and every 12 months
• Paid out £9.4 billion in financial loans and grants to new and present pupils, as well as £10.5 billion in tuition charges to higher and more schooling providers in the very last 12 months
• Employs over 3,four hundred employees throughout web-sites in Glasgow, Darlington and Llandudno Junction

About Atos

Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 110,000 workers in seventy three nations around the world and annual income of € 12 billion. European variety 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Large-General performance Computing, the Team delivers end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Info, Business enterprise Applications and Electronic Place of work alternatives. In the British isles & Ireland Atos delivers enterprise technological know-how alternatives for some of the country’s most significant general public and personal sector organisations The Team is the Around the world Details Technology Spouse for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates underneath the brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to aid design and style the long run of the facts room. Its experience and companies support the enhancement of information, schooling and analysis in a multicultural method and lead to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the globe, the Team enables its prospects and workers, and members of societies at huge to reside, operate and build sustainably, in a risk-free and safe facts room.

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