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Making Friends with the Neighbours

Pictured: Alex Craig (Senior Director of bit 10), David Grindrod (University of Warwick Science Park), Peter Corker (NAGTY), Malcolm Cutler (VBi).

Bit10 Ltd, which builds websites and IT applications, has secured the deals with VBi Ltd and the National Academy For Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) – two firms also based at the University of Warwick Science Park in Coventry.

The company has built an intranet and will develop software packages for neighbours VBI – a company whose activities include provision of IT solutions to retailers and fuel management systems to fleet transport operators.

And Bit10 is redesigning and building a website for NAGTY, with the two contracts amounting to around £250,000.

Rik Pipe, of Bit10, said: “This is great news for the company and it also highlights the benefits of being based somewhere like the University of Warwick Science Park.

“Winning this sort of business would be pleasing in any circumstances, but when it is with organisations in the same park it is good for everyone.

“Whenever we need to hold meetings, it is much more convenient for us and for the client.”

NAGTY was established two years ago to help get the best out of the top five per cent of school children aged between 11 and 19.

It now has 37,000 members nationwide of which around 500 are from Coventry.

NAGTY runs courses face-to-face but also offers a host of services and activities via its website.

The new site will go live early next year and Peter Corker, the communications and marketing manager, said it had been a crucial decision to pick the right company for the design and building of its website.

He said: “We chose Bit10 after a tendering process and they proved to have the technical and creative capabilities we required.

“Where they were based had nothing to do with their selection, but it has made the on-going work much easier. If we need to ask a question, we can just stroll across the car park and ask it!”

David Grindrod, of the University of Warwick Science Park, said: “We have always said that the facilities and services available here make it a great place for growing companies to do business.

“But winning new contracts from fellow firms on the site is an added bonus for those businesses here.”