Westminster Group lands major consultancy project in the Americas

3rd Dec 2014 12:45

AIM-listed Westminster Group cheered with the news its Technology Division has secured a contract worth around $4.4m to undertake a major consultancy project for a government in the Americas.The company, which supplies managed services and technology based security solutions, said that under the first phase of the project, Westminster will carry out a comprehensive solutions-based analysis of the country's borders, ports of entry and key infrastructure, and provide recommendations and proposals on long-term solutions to improve national security to assist in the fight against terrorism, drugs and human trafficking.Phase two of the project will be to create a 15-25 year national security enhancement programme and will involve a planned roll out of both technology based enhancements and managed services solutions, which would be developed under a separate cost agreement.The project will begin immediately, with phase one expected to be completed during 2015.Chief executive Peter Fowler said: "I am delighted to announce this latest contract award to assist this important client improve its national security. The contract is significant not only through the solutions based analysis programme contained in the initial phase of the project, but also in the potential to deliver long-term security improvements under follow-on agreements."Our business development teams have been working with the client on the development of this programme throughout 2014 and the contract award is a testament both to the dedication of our staff and to our reputation in providing advanced security solutions to governments and clients world-wide. Furthermore, this shows the value of the integration and mutual support between our Technology and Managed Services divisions."Shares had climbed 5.56% to 33.25p by 13:10.