June 22, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Ness Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTC), a provider of information technology solutions and services, said that it has been awarded a four-year outsourcing contract to provide around-the-clock help desk services to Clalit Health Services, Israel's largest Healthcare Management Organization.

The contract is valued at 16 million Israeli shekels, or around $4 million. It includes an option to extend the contract for an additional period of up to four years.

Under the contract, Ness will provide the services through an IT Client Service Center, which will be located at Ness and which will operate in a performance output measurement model according to a service level agreement standard.

The center will serve as the single point of contact to Clalit's IT division for Clalit's headquarters units, 14 hospitals and eight districts, as well as private pharmacies working with Clalit.

It will provide a range of support solutions, including support of unique healthcare applications, as well as support for hardware failures.

Israel-based Ness Technologies is a provider of IT and business services and solutions with specialized expertise in software product engineering; and system integration, application development, consulting and software distribution.

Ness has operations in North America, Europe, Israel and India, has customers in over 20 countries, and partners with numerous software and hardware vendors worldwide.

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