ANS scores double Victory

VAR secures two contracts worth over half a million

Manchester-based VAR ANS is in high spirits after bagging two contracts worth over £550,000 in April.

Last month saw the security specialist clinch a LAN/WAN deal with Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) and an email migration project with Stephenson Harwood Solicitors.

Both contracts will be completed over the next quarter.

The wins come a month after ANS was appointed as the UK’s first Support Partner for Novell’s security portfolio (CRN, 19 March). The VAR, which has 50 staff in London and Manchester, also boasts strategic partnerships with Microsoft and IBM.

Scott Fletcher, chairman at ANS, said: “We’re delighted to announce both contracts today. It speaks well for the breadth of the services we provide, to both the public and private sector. We have similar projects in the pipeline and positive future business.”

The Coventry Teaching PCT roll-out will be based on dual core Cisco catalyst switches. ANS will also place a Cisco IP telephony solution on the organisation’s network, which the VAR said would allow it to connect into its existing Siemens system and migrate to a fuller functionality Cisco system.

The second deal will see ANS install and migrate all Stephenson Harwood’s users worldwide to Exchange 2003.