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Shipley-Harmonic Business Capture Service Launches at Farnborough 2008
July 2008
Harmonic and alliance partner Shipley formally launched their Business Capture Service at Farnborough International Air Show last week with the signing of the joint agreement.
In a joint statement the Managing Directors of Shipley and Harmonic, Tony Birch and Tom Samuel, both pictured alongside Sean Slatter President and CEO of Shipley Associates, said ‘In today's competitive environment effective business winning is vital. The Shipley-Harmonic Business Capture Service helps clients to reduce bidding costs and increase win rates, by providing capture and bid professionals who are experts in their respective fields'.
Providing major Defence and Security clients with expertise in every aspect of capture strategy and proposal development, the complete Business Capture Service includes:
- Capture and bid management services backed by the full resources of Harmonic and Shipley
- Bid Support through the provision of subject matter experts, technical specialists and management services in support of solution development.
- Capability Development by coaching and mentoring of staff in the Shipley approach during bids and by supporting the development of organisational processes.
- Effective Programme Mobilisation by retaining key elements of the Shipley Harmonic team through to programme initiation and delivery.
Harmonic joins the UKCeB
Harmonic is pleased to announce it has joined the UK Council for Electronic Business or UKCeB where we will play an active role towards enhancing information sharing in Defence acquisition. We shall work directly with a number of the UKCeB working groups, contributing our expertise in developing collaborative information solutions for the logistics domain.
About the UKCeB
UKCeB's mission is to accelerate secure information sharing to support collaboration in defence acquisition. Membership is drawn from the Aerospace and Defence Industries coupled with IT Service Providers and Consultants. Amongst other activities the Council provides an independent focal point for the defence industry to interact with governments, leads the sharing of best practice throughout the industry and governments, provides guidance and advice and co-operate closely with Trade Associations to deliver benefit to their members.
Harmonic welcomes a new member of the team
Harmonic is delighted to welcome Terry O'Reilly who joins the Business Development team this month.
Terry served in the Royal Navy for the past 37 years as an Aircraft Engineering Officer. His last appointment before joining Harmonic was with ACDS where he was responsible for the development of Defence Logistic Policy and, with industry, the development and implementation of the Logistic Coherence Information Architecture.
Business Development Director Dave Keep said, 'Terry's background and experience within the Ministry of Defence will complement the skills of our existing team as we continue to grow the public sector side of our defence business.'
Harmonic accepted to FATS2
Harmonic has been accepted as a supplier under the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Framework Agreement for Technical Support (FATS2).
FATS2 provides the MoD with a route to contracting with companies registered to provide technical services, project support and engineering support.
Harmonic is registered under the agreement to provide support services in the following areas of capability:
- Computing Technologies and Mathematical Techniques
- Information and Signal Processing Technologies
- Human Sciences
- Integrated Systems Technologies
- Manufacturing Processes/Design Tools/Techniques
- Defence Analysis
- Installation and Facilities
- Battlespace Information
- Business Processes
- Project Management & Acquisition Support Functions
For more information please contact us at enquiries@harmonicltd.co.uk
