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| Atkins acquires Advantage Business Group  Atkins, Europe's largest multidisciplinary consultancy, announces the acquisition of Advantage Business Group Ltd, an independent defence and systems consultancy, for a cash consideration of £19.4 million. The combined business will be well placed to provide independent systems engineering and project management support to Government and industry for defence systems projects. The MoD's recent Defence Industry Strategy points to the increasing need for these skills to support the success of today's most important defence projects.Advantage has a distinguished record in defence systems engineering. Its technical consultants have excellent relationships with the MoD, as well as major defence prime contractors. This mix of independent technical capability, security-cleared personnel and domain knowledge is in particularly short supply at present. Advantage has particular expertise in communication and information systems, as well as through-life capability management - all increasingly important features of the next generation of defence acquisition. Advantage also brings Atkins capability in airport systems and homeland security, adding to its current expertise in these growth areas. Additionally, Advantage's business solutions group has the rights to the Q-MAP business process capture software. Advantage employs approximately 180 staff with offices in Farnham, Bristol, Gainsborough and Aberdeen. Atkins will fully integrate Advantage into its Design & Engineering Solutions business, bringing the total number of staff working on similar defence projects to around 700. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |