Academy contracts add up to £4.5m for Viglen

Viglen is going back to school after winning high-profile tenders for three new-build Academies across the UK.

The contracts have a combined total value in excess of £4.5m and are for Bedford Academy, All Saints Academy, Dunstable and the Skinners Kent Academy, part of Skinners Trust.

The wins comes after the firm, whose major shareholder is Lord Sugar, was awarded a position on the Becta ICT framework last year. Upon closure of Becta, the framework transferred to the DfE and Viglen went on to secure eight multi-million pound business wins.
 
The Bedford Academy contract, which is to the value of £2m and runs over four years, will see the Science & Technology-specialist institution take on a range of Viglen products in its new premises. The All Saints Academy in Dunstable is hoping that its Viglen solution, worth just under a million pounds over four years, will transform its learning, teaching and administration services, while the arrangement with Skinners Kent Academy will be worth more than £1.6m over three years.

In total, Viglen’s ICT solutions for these contracts will benefit over 3,000 students across the three Academies.

Says Bordan Tkachuk, CEO of Viglen: “It’s really exciting news for Viglen to be the chosen ICT solutions provider for these three Academies. We are thrilled that our products will be at the centre of education excellence in such high profile institutions. The Academy sector is key for us and it is a great coup to have these projects on board. These three latest wins confirm Viglen as a major contender in the new academies education sector.”