The Ministry of Education has
awarded a tender to Precision Tech Services (PTS) to supply, install and
commission 3,200 Hewlett Packard personal computers and other related
peripherals at 320 schools in eight provinces in Sri Lanka. This project
comes under the General Education Project II and is funded by the World
Bank. The order value amounts to over USD 4.2Mn. This is the second phase of
GEPII project and the first phase of this project for computerising 80
schools island-wide was also successfully completed by Precision Tech on
record time period two years ago. Also, PTS was awarded another
computerising project recently by the Ministry of Education to install 2,200
computers and related peripherals under the Asian Development Bank funded
Secondary Education Modernization Project. The successful completion of all
these previous projects were one of the reasons for the Ministry of
Education to confidently award the largest ever computerisation project in
Sri Lanka.
The agreement on this was signed recently between the Secretary of the
Ministry of Education and the Management of Precision Tech Services. This
project is expected to be completed by April, 2004.
Precision Tech Services (PTS) was incorporated in 1992 as the sole
distributor and service provider for Hewlett Packard computing products. PTS
later established Business Solution Systems, a Premium Business Partner of
HP, in 1996 to channel its system integration business through this new
company while PTS concentrates on government projects and healthcare
solutions.
PTS and BSS are member companies of the Seven Seas Group. The core
competencies of PTS/BSS are in providing meaningful and cost effective
solutions to government and corporate organisations in the areas of
connectivity, interfacing applications and professional services.
