Capita has secured a two-year contract extension worth more than £50 million to continue delivering managed IT services for all of Northern Ireland’s 1,100 schools.
The Northern Ireland’s Education Authority (EA) contract extension will last until 31 March 2024.
Capita will provide local area networks, cloud services, service desk support, networked desktop and portable devices and digital learning services for pupils and teachers.
There will be a few changes to the contract which will see Capita working with partners to develop and implement a new mobile-friendly version of the MySchool platform for students and staff and several projects aimed at “harnessing the power of data across the service using Microsoft Power BI”.
Jon Lewis, Capita’s chief executive officer, said: “The extension of our contract with Northern Ireland’s Education Authority reflects the strength of our decade-long relationship with the organisation, along with our significant digital and technology capabilities which have helped improve teaching and learning for Northern Ireland’s pupils and teachers.
