Trustmarque Solutions, a UK software licensing company has won a two-year contract, worth over £4 million, to supply encrypted and non-encrypted hardware and software to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The deal, which follows the consolidation of the Defence Equipment and Supply (DE&S) procurement framework, will also see Trustmarque supply the MoD with anti-virus software from security vendor, McAfee.

Robert Cornish, MoD Key Account Manager for Trustmarque, commented on the deal: “Under the contract, we will be able to supply the MoD with everything they need, from desktops and laptops, to software and all associated licences. This means we can bring the same savings through leveraging our long-established hardware relationships, as we have done historically for their software purchases, using our twenty years of experience establishing ourselves in this market.”

The DE&S consolidation comes as part of a wider strategy to formally merge the DE&S with the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), which is an independent office of HM Treasury, established to help Government deliver best value from its spending. To this end, the DE&S is collaborating heavily with the OGC to ensure their procurement methods are in line with one another, to make the eventual merger as seamless as possible. In the long term such an arrangement will provide continuity across the whole of government.