Civica lands £50 million school IT deals

Civica has agreed contracts with Sheffield and Essex educational bodies worth nearly 50 million over the next decade, the services provider has said.

Sheffield City Council's Building Schools for the Future Programme has signed up Civica as an ICT partner for a three phase, nine-year contract worth 45 million. The firm will deliver managed services, including a data centre and other ICT infrastructure for nine schools in the first two phases.

Essex County Council

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Freelance journalist Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007, with bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more.

Nicole the author of a book about the history of technology, The Long History of the Future.