HYDERABAD, India & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cigniti Technologies, a leading independent testing services company, has been awarded a place upon the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) latest G-Cloud 6 framework for providing Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services. The G-Cloud initiative makes it easier for the suppliers to sell their services off-the-shelf to public sector organizations. It offers cost-effective, innovative solutions to the buyers while safeguarding them from getting into expensive contracts with unknown suppliers.
Joining G-Cloud 6 as a supplier on the UK government’s Digital Marketplace, an online store, helps Cigniti expand its business across UK by providing the Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services covering mobile testing, big data testing, cloud testing, test automation, functional and non-functional testing and test advisory services.
Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, Executive Director at Cigniti, said, “We are delighted to have joined the G-Cloud 6 framework. We believe that an established testing practice is essential to building a stable technology solution that creates real business impact. Our QA / testing practice, comprising test accelerators, tools and frameworks, will help public sector organizations in the UK achieve their critical IT goals with greater quality, better reliability and enhanced robustness.”
For public sector organizations in the UK including central government, local government, health, education, devolved administrations, emergency services, defence and not-for-profit organisations, G-Cloud provides greater flexibility to choose and change the service provider easily without going through the long procurement and implementation cycles. Also, it offers freedom to quickly adopt better value and innovative solutions.
Nanda Padmaraju, Vice President, Sales at Cigniti, said, “The recently awarded supplier status on G-Cloud has given us an excellent opportunity to promote our best-in-class testing services to the public sector undertakings in the UK and to ensure that the regional QA / testing requirements are effectively met.”
About Cigniti:
Cigniti Technologies Limited (BSE: 534758) is the world’s Third Largest Independent Software Testing Services Company. With a team of over 1500 people, Cigniti is spread across US, UK, India, Australia, Middle East and Canada. Cigniti’s test offerings include Agile and DevOps testing, Test Consulting, Test Advisory services, TCoE, Enterprise Mobility Testing, Testing on Cloud, Big Data Testing, Functional, Automation, Security and Performance Testing services. Over the last 15 years, Cigniti has helped Enterprises and ISVs across verticals build quality software while improving time to market and reducing cost of quality. Cigniti has translated its R&D into SMART Tools that accelerate testing and help improve the quality of services delivered to clients. Cigniti is also the world’s first Independent Software Testing Services Company rated at CMMI SVC1.3 maturity level 3 and is an ISO 27001:2005 certified organization. For more information, please visit http://www.cigniti.com.
About CCS:
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has brought together Government’s central commercial capability into a single organisation, amalgamating Government Procurement Service with other commercial teams from the Cabinet Office and central government departments. CCS is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office and operates as a trading fund under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973. Their remit is to work with both departments and organisations across the whole of the public sector to ensure maximum value is extracted from every commercial relationship and improve the quality of service delivery. The CCS goal is to become the “go-to” place for expert commercial and procurement services. With both service delivery and advisory capability, services include contract management and supplier performance management to ensure that the Government acts as a true, single customer; freeing up individual organisations to focus their procurement expertise on what is unique to them.
For more information on Cigniti please visit http://www.cigniti.com.
