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22 Aug 2006 07:01

Nasstar PLC22 August 2006 Remploy enter into 5 year hosting contract with Nasstar Nasstar plc ("Nasstar" or "the Company"), which supplies business software overthe internet, today announces that it has entered into a contract to providehosting services to Remploy Offiscope ("Remploy Offiscope"), a business operatedby Remploy, the UK's leading provider of jobs for disabled people. Under theterms of the contract Nasstar will provide dedicated servers for hostingdocument management software for Remploy's clients. The value of the contractwill vary depending on the number of Remploy Offiscope customers who use theservice. The initial contract is for a 5 year period with a value in the regionof £40,000 over the contract term. The revenue from the hosting will grow whenadditional customers purchase the service from Remploy Offiscope. Charles Black, Chief Executive of Nasstar said: "We are delighted to be working with Remploy Offiscope. They provide a range ofoutsourced services and we are delighted to be providing the hosting for theirdocument management software. As demand for hosted IT services grows we arelooking forward to developing our partnership further and believe that our rangeof hosted services such as email and Microsoft Office can further enhance therange of outsourced services that Remploy Offiscope offers to its impressivecustomer base. " Chris Wood, Remploy Strategic Partnerships Manager said: "Nasstar has workedclosely with Remploy to develop a hosted ASP service using IMR's Alchemydocument management software. Nasstar impressed us with both their agileapproach to our requirements and the robustness of their technical platform. Welook forward to developing our relationship with them as more of our clientsseek flexible, outsourced business process solutions to improve their ownbusiness agility". Further Information Nasstar plc Nasstar is an Application Service Provider which supplies software over theInternet. Nasstar was admitted to AIM in December 2005. Nasstar's serviceinvolves hosting applications such as email, Microsoft Office, accounts softwareand CRM systems from a purpose-built data centre, providing a centralised supplyof software applications accessible over the Internet. Customers pay for usageon a monthly basis, making delivery of core IT services a utility. For further information on Nasstar visit www.nasstar.com Remploy Offiscope Remploy Offiscope provides access to a wide range of essential but time andresource consuming business services, offering businesses the opportunity tooutsource various front and back office services. Remploy Offiscope is abusiness division of Remploy Ltd, the UK's leading provider of jobs for disabledpeople. Last year it supported in work or into work more than 10,000 people witha range of physical, sensory and mental disabilities. The company partners with some of the country's biggest companies to find jobsfor disabled people, including BT, Asda, Christian Salvesen, Tesco and B&Q. The company employs 5,700 disabled people in its own manufacturing and servicesbusinesses and last year its specialist recruitment agency, Remploy Interwork,found jobs in mainstream employment for a further 4,300. Remploy is the country's leading supplier of school furniture, makes chemical,biological and nuclear protection suits for police and military in Britain andoverseas, and operates CCTV in more than 50 towns and cities. Remploy is a non-departmental public body and receives an annual governmentgrant of £111m. In line with recent government proposals to encourage one million people offincapacity benefit over the next decade, and as more and more people look tomake the swap from health-related benefits into paid employment, Remploy aims tosupport 20,000 people nationally into employment each year by 2010. For further information visit www.remployoffiscope.co.uk Contact information Nasstar plcCharles Black, Chief Executivecb@nasstar.com0870 240 1634 - Telephone Remploy OffiscopeChris WoodStrategic Partnerships Manager07931 957 816 - Telephone W.H. Ireland LimitedRuth Gifford or Tim Cofman0121 616 2101 - Telephone The information contained herein is restricted and is not for release ordistribution in or into the United States of America, Canada, Australia, theRepublic of South Africa, the Republic of Ireland or Japan. This information is provided by RNS, the company news service from the LondonStock Exchange. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange