Re Contract

Comino Group PLC
17 April 2002



COMINO GROUP PLC: CONTRACT GAIN



                £5m contract for supply to Norwich City Council



Comino Group plc ('Comino'), the provider of software solutions for the local
government, housing associations and occupational pensions sectors, announces
that it has been awarded contracts worth £5m, over a 15 year period, for its
part in a consortium bid to Norwich City Council ('Norwich CC'). Comino will
supply workflow, electronic document management and citizen relationship
management software and related services under a project known as 'Norwich
Connect'.



The contract, one of Comino's largest with a local government, is part of a £85m
Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project to meet e-Government targets by 2005.
Norwich CC will work in partnership with a business consortium of Integris, KPMG
Consulting and BT to provide 24-hour access to information and services through
the web and public information points, using products and services from Comino.



The project has also been given Pathfinder Status by the Treasury, which means
it may be used as a blueprint by other local authorities to modernise their
working methods to provide public focused services by managing the workflow
process efficiently and eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy and administrative
delay.



Commenting, Garth Selvey, Comino's Chief Executive, said:

'We are very pleased to be part of the Norwich City Council initiative which is
the first full-scale e-government project of its type. This project is at the
heart of Comino's on-going strategy to provide software solutions across all
local government departments helping to bring improvements to their service
delivery and performance.'



Comino has previously provided workflow and document management systems to the
Norwich CC for use in its Revenues and Benefits department.



ENDS



For further information please contact:


Comino plc                                                   Binns & Co PR Ltd

Garth Selvey, Chief Executive       Tel: [phone]       Paul McManus, Peter Binns
Paul Clifford, Finance Director                              Tel: [phone]
David Roots, Director for Local
Government




Editor's notes:



Comino's operating companies are based near Maidenhead and in Leeds, Croydon and
Dudley. The Leeds and Dudley offices are new offices, and replace smaller
premises in Leeds and the present West Midlands locations, respectively.



Comino provide workflow and electronic data management systems to over 400
organisations in Occupational Pensions, Social Housing and Local Government:



•         Comino serves some 50 organisations looking after more than 1.2
million pensioners. Three of these organisations manage more than 170,000
pension accounts each. Its new Universal Pensions Management (UPM) was awarded
the 'software & systems provider of the year' award in 2000 and 2001 by
Professional Pensions.



•         Comino serves some 250 Registered Social Landlords looking after more
than 800,000 homes and some two million occupants. The largest organisation
Comino's systems handle has 55,000 homes; the smallest just a few hundred.



•         Comino serves over 70 Local Authority Revenue and Benefit departments
who look after more than four million council tax payers, business rate payers
and benefit recipients.







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