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Freelance suppliers resource MoD project

Freelance trainer suppliers BroadSkill and Synergy have been selected as the resource providers for one of the UK's largest IT user training initiatives.

The suppliers say the project is valued at over £3 million in year one and involves training around 175,000 staff.

In March of this year, the ATLAS consortium was selected by the MoD to supply Increment 1 of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) project. Over 10 years, the project aims to replace numerous individual information systems throughout the MoD with a single, more efficient information infrastructure.

BroadSkill and Synergy say they will provide the end user training element as sub-contractors for EDS, the prime contractor for the ATLAS consortium.

The project will include Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows XP training. It is envisaged that the delivery will consist of a mixture of classroom-based training and floor walking. This first phase is expected to run for a year from this December and will involve up to 100 trainers and training coordinators.

To help with resourcing, the two providers say they will establish an 'ATLAS Academy' designed to reskill suitable military personnel who are reaching the end of their engagements as trainers.

Stephen Fletcher, MD at BroadSkill, said: "This is a tremendous opportunity for some of our existing freelance trainers to secure long term work. I'm also pleased by the establishment of the ATLAS Academy which will provide an injection of new talent into the training industry and allow those making the difficult transition to civilian life to establish new rewarding and profitable careers."

Daniel Hanlon, MD at Synergy, said: "We went through a tough bid process in competition with some of the largest training providers in the industry and I'm very pleased that our offering has been deemed to be the most attractive. Our focus now is on working closely with BroadSkill and ATLAS to make the delivery an equal success."

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