Matchtech Group awarded Managed Agency contract by

Matchtech Group Plc has demonstrated its ability to provide a comprehensive solution to recruitment with the award of a 3-year "Managed Service Provider" contract from the VT (Vosper Thornycroft) Group.

With an order book worth £2 billion, VT is continuing to expand with Matchtech acting as the managing agent for technical, industrial and commercial personnel for all of VT's companies throughout the UK, playing a vital role in their future strategy.

"We're confident Matchtech's partnership with us will make a major contribution to the rationalisation of our vendor base and help us optimise costs," said John Brown, VT Group Human Resources Director.

Matchtech's approach to technical recruitment has gained it a high profile list of clients and it now has an annual turnover of £80 million.

"We're obviously delighted with this latest award from such a prestigious, blue chip company," said Matchtech's Project Director Adrian Gunn."It is proof of our ability to provide a total recruitment package, where we act as the managing agent to the client and manage many other recruitment suppliers on the client's behalf. We are proving that a comprehensive service can be delivered without compromising on quality, whilst providing substantial time and cost benefits to clients. In fact, this project has already been followed by several other preferred supplier and managed agency contracts."