Headquartered just outside Glasgow, Amor Group is Scotland’s largest business technology solutions company with forecast revenues of £42m and 500 staff across its Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Manchester, Coventry, Houston and Dubai offices. Its  was chosen over a raft of blue-chip  companies underlining Scottish firms'  competiveness.

The system with over 50,000 registered public sector users, captures almost a third of the procurement spend across the Scottish public sector. The Scottish Government’s ePS service allows purchases to be processed electronically from requisition to payment.  It supports electronic sourcing activities undertaken by public sector procurement professionals. There are now plans to build on that under the new management of Amor Group.

John Innes, (right) Amor Group CEO says: “We will enable public service organisations to become more effective and respond to local needs by facilitating better buying decisions through ePS.

 “ePS is already one of the most comprehensive and successful Public Sector eGovernment initiatives in the world. We know it can deliver significant savings for the public sector and our challenge is to increase its coverage, capability and compliance and improve it further.

" We intend to use the knowledge and insights of our business to support the Scottish Government as it makes Scotland a leading global business destination. We are recruiting across all of our offices, experiencing international growth and cementing our position as a leading provider of business technology solutions.”

 Alex Neil, Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment  said: “The procurement exercise was highly competitive. The award of this contract builds upon Scotland’s successes in the deployment and management of public sector eProcurement technologies. It also showcases Scotland’s supplier capability to host and manage what is regarded as one of the leading government eCommerce services.”

The service will be delivered by Amor Group from locations around Scotland. The Scottish Government’s Saughton House in Edinburgh will be the main hosting centre. User support services provided from the Amor Assist Service Desk in Aberdeen which offers 24x7 support for all users. Integration and transition process support will come from Amor Group’s India of Inchinnan HQ, just outside Glasgow.

 The new model and solution for delivering ePS will also provide claimed carbon savings by encompassing a virtual hosting environment, reduce the infrastructure from currently over 73 physical servers to 19, a 75% reduction in the carbon foot print, equivalent to removing 200 vehicles from the road a year.