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15 January 2008, 1:18pm
Halcrow celebrates GISS Catalist framework agreement award
Halcrow has been awarded a Geographic Information and Services (GISS) Catalist framework agreement. OGCbuying.solutions announced the award after a rigorous competitive procurement process. The Catalist framework agreement allows public sector customers to place orders with Halcrow under standard terms and conditions, fully compliant with EU procurement laws, making it quicker for public sector customers to source a supplier.
The Halcrow bid was led by Rollo Home of the geomatics & GIS team who commented: “the award of the GISS Catalist framework agreement confirms Halcrow as a market leading provider of Spatial Data solutions”.
Only 17 companies have been selected by OGCbuying.solutions to provide services under the framework agreement. Rollo continued: “The framework agreement enables us to offer our customers an extremely rapid customer response through the streamlined procurement process. We’re looking forward to undertaking a large amount of business through Catalist”.
The Geomatics & GIS team has undergone considerable growth with over 100 staff in the UK, and another 160 staff based around the globe. The highly integrated team offers an extensive range of spatial data management services including urban modelling, engineering data support services, asset data modelling, and web based services.
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