COMMERCIAL: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust has awarded a £4.3m contract to Advanced Business Solutions to provide an “Integrated Information Centre”, including data warehousing and business intelligence analytics.

A statement said it would “improve efficiency and enable the trust to enhance the services it delivers to its 1.6m population. The planned go-live is January 2013”. It will be delivered as a fully managed service by ABS’ sister company, Advanced 365, the statement said.