Contract Win
8 March2011
OMG plc
Yotta DCL win four year Visual Survey contract
OMG plc, (LSE: OMG) ("OMG" or the "Group"), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, announces today its Yotta DCL division, the leading highways surveyor, has been awarded a four year contract to carry out visual surveys on behalf of Cheshire East & West and the Merseyside Consortium. The consortium includes Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Liverpool City Council.
Over the last five years, Yotta DCL has carried out visual inspections for Cheshire & Merseyside. Yotta has a team of experienced field-based surveyors, armed with the latest data collection software who are well equipped to carry out visual surveys in one of the most urbanised areas in the UK, which can present many challenges. The Yotta team is fully accredited with UK Pavement Management System (UKPMS), the national standard for management systems for the assessment of local road network conditions and for the planning of investment and maintenance on paved areas of roads, kerbs, footways and cycle-tracks on local roads within the UK.
Commenting on the contract win Nick Bolton, OMG Chief Executive Officer said:
"We have a good relationship with Cheshire and Merseyside so it's great to be awarded the contract for another four years, so we can build on the relationship and continue to provide them with robust, consistent and accurate data for analysis and asset management decisions."
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For further information please contact:
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OMG plc |
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Nick Bolton, Group CEO David Deacon, Group CFO |
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Hayley Roberts, PR Executive |
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Financial Dynamics |
+44 20 7831 3113 |
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Matt Dixon / Emma Appleton |
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Evolution Securities (NOMAD to OMG) |
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Jeremy Ellis / Chris Clarke |
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Notes to Editors
About OMG
OMG plc (Oxford Metrics Group. LSE: OMG) is a group of technology companies producing image understanding products and services for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries.
Be it for capturing the movements of actors (for the movie industry), sportsmen (for video games or improving team performance), or children with Cerebral Palsy, rehab patients and animals (for medical, life science and research industries); or recording the condition of highways and the assets that surround them or assessing the value of properties; or even providing image intelligence and situational awareness from drone aircraft. Through this diversified offering the Group has earned its strong international reputation for precision from pixels.
Founded in 1984, the Group is headquartered in Oxford, UK, and has four offices in the US and two in the UK. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through three operating subsidiaries: Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, and Yotta, our highways and property surveying business.
The Group's global clients spanning the worlds of science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film and broadcast include: major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including: Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector; Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In surveying clients include:Miami-Dade county, Atkins, and Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others.
For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omgplc.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.co.uk or www.yottamvs.com.
About Yotta DCL
Yotta DCL is at the forefront of highway technology and services. The company's surveyors cover hundreds of miles of roads collecting all types of data every day to help transform highway surveys into solutions with real benefits. Its broad experience working with local authorities enables Yotta DCL to provide a range of survey solutions for councils to efficiently manage and maintain their highway assets.
Surveys from Yotta DCL include Coarse Visual Inspections (CVI), Detailed Visual Inspections (DVI), machine scanning using its high tech Scanner vehicles and asset inventory surveys. It also develops and supports a wide range of software such as MARCHpms the industry renowned and respected pavement management system, Nano the user friendly asset management software and NotiVia, its new data capture tool.
Yotta DCL's consultancy services team offers bespoke and scheduled training seminars, UKpms expertise and data analysis to customers of all pavement management systems. Customers include the Welsh Assembly Government, Southampton City Council, Nottingham City Council, Hampshire County council and Northumberland City Council.
Yotta DCL is part of the OMG plc group of companies. Founded in 1984, OMG is a successful British technology company and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. OMG is one of the world's leading suppliers of image understanding systems, with customers all over the world.
For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, www.vicon.com/boujou, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.com, or www.yottamvs.com.
This information is provided by RNS