Yotta DCL UK Contract Wins

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OMG PLC

04 July 2011

 



4 July 2011

OMG plc

Yotta DCL UK Contract Wins

- Yotta DCL secures new contracts with Newcastle City Consortium and Cumbria County Council-

OMG plc, (LSE: OMG) ("OMG" or the "Group"), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries is pleased to announce that its Yotta DCL division, the leading highways surveyor, has won two new contracts in the North of England.

Newcastle City Consortium

Yotta DCL has signed a contract with the Newcastle City Consortium to carry out its entire road network surveying work. The contract will run for three years.

The Newcastle City Consortium is made up of 5 local authorities from Tyne & Wear and 5 from Tees Valley and today's new contract builds upon successful work already carried out by Yotta DCL in this region. Since 2006, Yotta DCL has had a long standing relationship with members of the Consortium and has undertaken SCANNER and Visual surveys for members of both the Tyne & Wear Local Authorities and Tees Valley Local Authorities.

Cumbria County Council

Following a successful tender process, Yotta DCL is pleased to confirm that it has also signed a four year contract with Cumbria County Council to carry out all of its SCANNER and Scrim surveys whereby vehicles are used to survey the roads with a number of synchronised measurement devices such as laser profilers and cameras to accurately determine the condition of the road surface.

This new contract represents a new phase in Yotta DCL's relationship with Cumbria County Council.  Yotta DCL has not worked directly for the council before but has carried out Asset Inventory Surveys for Cumbria Highways, a partnership between Cumbria County Council, Amey and Connect Roads and which work together on behalf of the County Council. Under the terms of today's agreement, Yotta DCL's Scanner vehicles will carry out comprehensive condition surveys of approximately 4,784 miles (7,700km) of highway network, covering everything from major routes to minor rural roads.

Commenting on the recent wins, Nick Bolton, OMG Chief Executive Officer said:

"I am delighted to be able to announce two strong signs of progress for Yotta DCL in the UK market. Our focus continues to rest on helping improve the way that Local Authorities manage their roads and, as a result, manage their road repair budgets. We look forward to working and building strong, valuable relationships with both Newcastle City Consortium and Cumbria County Council."

For further information please contact:

OMG plc	[phone]
Nick Bolton, Group CEO
David Deacon, Group CFO
Hayley Roberts, Press Contact
Financial Dynamics	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Emma Appleton / Charles Palmer
Evolution Securities (NOMAD to OMG)	[phone]
Jeremy Ellis / Chris Clarke

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 DCL, 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.Yotta DCL.co.uk

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.Yotta DCLdcl.com. 

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