Mintra Enters a Framework Agreement with the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency
The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency places continuous focus on improving work processes to achieve cost effective estate and property administration.  Naturally, ICT is an important tool at every stage of production and administration.

The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency aims to use e-learning to offer their employees an improved training programme.  All e-learning will be administrated through Mintra’s Learning Management System – Trainingportal.

About the Framework Agreement
Mintra has entered a 3 year framework agreement to deliver comprehensive e-learning services to the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency.  The agreement comprises:

• Trainingportal – Learning Management System
• Mintra Publisher – Authoring tool for developing e-learning courses
• Access to 3rd party e-learning courses
• Consultant services including educational consulting and developing e-learning courses

We are proud to have been chosen a supplier to the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency, and this kind of collaboration is an integral part of our strategy for providing our customers with added value for comprehensive e-learning services, tells Mintra’s Tallak Bakken.

About the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency
The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency is an administrative agency subordinate to the Ministry of Defence. The agency’s primary tasks relate to the planning, construction, administration, leasing and disposal by sale of defence estates and properties.  With its unique insight and competence, the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency provides secure and effective real estate solutions, which enable the Norwegian Armed Forces to significantly reduce their real estate holdings, lower rental fees, as well as increase the lifespan and reduce the cost of defence materials.

The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency’s business operations are in line with the best interests of their customers, owners, and society at large, solving public property challenges with a balance of administration and business transactions.

While the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency’s primary customer is the Norwegian Armed Forces, the agency also has clients in other public sectors.  At the end of 2007, the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency had a staff representing 1279 man-labour years.

The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency is divided into six business units:

• Construction Management
• Property and Facility Management
• Sales Management
• Asset Management
• National Fortifications Heritage
• Administrative Services

About Mintra
Mintra is a leading provider of interactive training and course administration. The company consists of about 70 employees and has offices in Oslo, Stavanger, and Aberdeen (UK).

For more information, contact Chul Christian Aamodt in Mintra.

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