The organisation has been awarded a major contract with the Department of Education to upgrade its school payroll system.
Business transformation specialist Version 1 has won a contract of up to 15 years with Ireland’s Department of Education to develop and manage the technology for its school employee payroll system.
The partnership, which also includes The Access Group and is valued at €102.7m, will involve the major transformation of the payroll system. Version 1 will lead the design, development, integration and management of the technology systems aimed at around 155,000 teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as retirees across Ireland.
The project will see the Department of Education providing payees with employee self-service capabilities to access their payroll information online.
Commenting on the award of the contract, the chief information officer for the Department of Education, Anne-Marie Sherkle said, “I would like to congratulate Version 1 on the award of this contract. Connecting Government 2030 highlights the need to harness cloud solutions so that we can deliver online services to our citizens. Leveraging cloud will allow us to provide not just effective public facing services but will help streamline back-end processes and systems.”
Ger O’Sullivan, the head of public sector Ireland at Version 1 added, “We have been truly inspired by the vision and drive of the team at the Department of Education to meaningfully improve payroll-related services. Version 1 has industry-leading customer satisfaction scores because we deliver on our customer commitments. We look forward to evolving this partnership even further to unlock this transformation.”
It has been a period of growth for Version 1 which recently announced the expansion of its presence at a number of key technology hubs in London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast. The company stated it would generate 1,000 jobs as part of its plans to invest £40m into the UK market over the next couple of years.
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