Local Authority
Building Schools for the Future

What is BSF?

Building Schools for the Future (BSF) represents a new approach to capital investment. It is bringing together significant investment (£45billion) in buildings and in ICT over the coming years to support the Government's educational reform agenda. The aim is to rebuild or renew every secondary school in England over a 10-15 year period to create world-class, 21 st century school environments which will inspire learning for decades to come and provide exceptional assets for the whole of the community.

ICT in BSF

ICT is to play a key role in transforming education as part of the BSF programme. At circa 10% of the overall programme funding ICT services in secondary schools are set to receive a £4.5billion investment. BSF ICT services typically include Schools LAN infrastructure including roaming Wireless, IP Telephony, Security and Authentication, Learning Platform, content and VLE and mobile learning devices. Key issues are: Integration with Buildings design

  • Managed Service provision providing anywhere, anytime learning access for whole educational estate
  • Use of and integration with Legacy ICT
  • Phased service delivery
  • Supply chain and stakeholder management
  • Supporting the educational vision and governments education reform agenda
  • Delivering Educational outcomes
  • Demonstrating best value and continually improving the ICT service quality and efficiency

How can Synetrix Help?

Synetrix are recognised for designing and delivering innovative and path-finding solutions to education and the public sector. Together Synetrix provides services to over 6,000 schools in the UK ranging from network services, e-mail and hosting through to fully managed and integrated Learning Platforms. Synetrix provides tailored help desk services (1 st , 2 nd & 3 rd Line) to Regional Broadband Consortia, Local Authorities and directly to schools. I2Q specialise in educational software development and implementation, Identity Management & SSO, content delivery and enterprise integration solutions. I2Q also engage heavily with both the DfES and Becta in innovative R&D activities which eventually produce tangible benefits to school communities.

Synetrix BSF Experience

Synetrix has been building its BSF experience over the last two years working with Design and Build Consortia and Leading Educational ICT providers such as: E4L – Interserve, Barclays, Mott Macdonald and Cambridge Education

  • MPB – Mouchel Parkman, Babcock
  • Enterprise
  • Nord Anglia
  • RM
  • Morse

Currently short-listed in Hackney and the Five Counties BSF projects and previously in two others, Synetrix is fully committed to supporting the BSF programme.