Glasgow City Council has signed a £15.5m contract for computer equipment and support services for the city’s primary and nursery schools.

The contract includes hardware and support services to the city’s 170 primary schools and 122 nurseries, as well as notebook computers for every full-time equivalent teacher.

The agreement with supplier Dell will include the procurement of 7,400 computers as well as services to maintain computing networks and servers and also provide a service desk to manage schools’ requirements.

Full-time teachers in primary schools and head teachers in nursery schools in Glasgow will be given access to their own notebook computer to allow more flexible working.

The deal is part of a larger project to modernise the entire primary and nursery school sector in Glasgow says Ronnie O’Connor, executive director of education, training and young people for Glasgow City Council.

‘This contract seeks to complement that by giving all primaries and nurseries access to a state-of-the-art, fully managed ICT service,’ he said.

The new service begins on 1 April 2007 with a phased a implementation.

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