Outsourcery soars on NHS contract win

Cloud service provider Outsorcery has won a contract to supply a cloud computing platform to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.The contract, the first that the Manchester-based group has won via the government's G-Cloud procurement framework, will see the company deliver its Microsoft Lync Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution via its own O-Cloud PGA Official Internet Platform.The deal comes as the government launched a new "Contracts Finder" portal which will make public sector opportunities less complicated and costly to bid for, according to group co-chief executive Piers Linney."The new Contracts Finder portal is a huge opportunity for SMEs to gain visibility across a wealth of public sector opportunities," Linney said.Outsorcery shares were up 8.08% to 27.02p at 13:09 on Thursday.