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Probrand Joins the Government Gateway Alliance Programme

Technology services provider, Probrand, has been approved as a level one partner within the Government Gateway Alliance Programme.

The Government Gateways Alliance Programme (GGAP) is part of the Cabinet Office’s E-Delivery Team’s ongoing commitment to work in partnership with key IT suppliers in delivering the Government Gateway and related services across the Public Sector.

E-Delivery Team (EDT) supports a shared service culture and is responsible for a set of products which combined form the Government Gateway, a mission critical ICT application for online government services. EDT’s work supports the Transformation Government activities.

I am delighted to welcome Probrand into the growing family of GGAP and look forward to working in partnership in order to deliver effective joined-up secure online services.

Damien Kennedy
EDT Head of Partnering

The Government Gateway Alliance Programme aims to establish key partnerships with IT and business suppliers. This integrates and supports solutions direct to the new or existing customer base within government and assists the EDT.

With a pedigree of Best Practice Best Value e-solutions that connect people and commerce, Probrand’s expertise may be used to help government save time and money across numerous high level transformational agendas.

Probrand is renowned for using its aggregation software to streamline data for using in transparent situations that demand reporting and central management functionality. Probrand's online IT procurement portal, theitindex.co.uk/gov, is proof that this robust technology delivers such capability, empowering end users with access to over 100,00 products daily updated by best price and availability.

Probrand MD, Peter Robbins, said: “Yet again we have been recognised for our innovative approach to modern day commerce challenges of connecting people to data.

“Our award winning online IT procurement portal theitindex.co.uk/gov is a tangible demonstration, amongst others, that our approach delivers robust solutions that facilitate efficient ways of working, saving time and money that can be better deployed elsewhere.

“This is at the heart of our ethos, streamlining business operations using technology to help add value to the bottom line. When applied to the public sector, connecting departments, offices, services etc to the information and transactions they need more quickly, can undoubtedly deliver efficiency savings and ultimately facilitate better delivery of services to citizens.

“We have transformed our own and customer businesses with dynamic approaches to cutting edge technology, it is for eDT partners to help government develop and grow their capacity and capability to apply technology effectively. This is the only way that government can keep up with an evolving globalised society.”

In the public sector, Probrand’s customers stretch from Police forces to NHS Trust Hospitals, schools and local authorities amongst others. The eDT win follows Probrand’s 2006 approval to supply public sector ICT through OGCbuying.solutions Catalist framework - the UK’s largest framework of its type said to be worth £2BN across six suppliers.