Thales bags £3.8 million biometric card contract

Technology and Equipment

The Home Office has contract awarded Thales a £3.8m contract to facilitate the IT infrastructure underpinning its non-EU foreign nationals permits.

Under the two-year contract the IT security firm will deliver and manage a Public Key Infrastructure Shared other Service (PKISS) to assist the Home Office’s production of Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) cards.

All non-EU foreign residents gets the card as a mode of identification for any stay in the UK of more than six months.

The card holds name, date and place of birth details and a fingerprint and a facial image, as well as a record of their immigration status and any entitlements they are permitted.Read complete story athttp://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/thales-bags-pound38-million-biometric-card-contractnbsp-277.php