The TNP team has its roots in Higher and Further Education and was formed from working as part of Lancaster University’s Information Systems team.

The team was also instrumental in the design, build and management of the CaNLMAN and CLEO networks, providing services to Higher and Further Education in Lancashire and Cumbria.

This experience, spanning over 40 combined years in network engineering and management, provides the TNP team with a unique insight into the sector and means that we are able to advise on a wide variety of projects from strategic advice, though procurement, to implementation and support. Examples of the types of projects we have worked on include:

• ICT Strategy Development
• System and Network Design
• WAN and MAN System Design and Build
• Procurement Support
• Programme, Project and Implementation Management
• System and Network Configuration
• Energy Efficiency and Management

Further information can be found on our consultancy services page

UK Higher Education Purchasing Consortia

Recently appointed to the UK Higher Education Purchasing Consortia’s national Network Framework Agreement, TNPs’ consultancy and engineering services are now available across the sector to members of all regional purchasing consortia. Further information can be found on our frameworks page.

Connectivity Services

TNP understand the challenges facing Higher and Further Education institutions, and the need to connect remote sites with greater resilience and higher speeds. We can bring our unique experience of the HE sector, combined with our telecoms provider capabilities, to design and install wide area and metropolitan area networks.

JANET Telecommunications Framework
The JANET Telecommunications Framework is open to all HE and FE institutions as well as all members of the regional purchasing consortia for the supply of leased circuits, dark fibre, Wide Area Ethernet and xDSL. Further information can be found on our frameworks page.