The Department of International Trade (DIT) has appointed Informed Solutions as its investment support development partner.
The agreement – set to run for two and a half years with a value of around £2 million – will involve the company supporting the digital delivery of new trade and investment projects and the ongoing digital transformation of existing support and trade and investment services.
This will include building new end-to-end digital services for internal and public facing processes.
Informed Solutions will also work with DIT and its digital, data, and technology (DDaT) team to identify skills and technology gaps, transfer knowledge to in-house teams and help build capacity to support emerging skills for future development.
Investment and trade
Its UK CEO, Seth Finegan, said: “Helping attract investment into the UK and championing free trade are critical factors inextricably linked to boosting innovation and driving economic growth following both our transition from the EU transition and our recovery post Covid.
“We are extremely proud to be appointed to support the Department for International Trade and its DDaT teams in designing and delivering innovative digital services that will help secure high impact, high value investments over the next few years.”
DIT has representatives in over 100 countries and operates across around 50 industrial sectors in the UK. Its central aims are to promote and encourage international trade and provide support and services to international businesses looking to trade with or invest in the UK.
Its public facing services include advice, support, and advanced end-to-end assistance for organisations looking to trade internationally, or invest in the UK, whilst ensuring that trading and investment promotion priorities and outcomes are continually delivered.