Scandent’s Albion Division Announces Human Services Contract Win in Tennessee

Contract valued at US$ 34 Million (Rs 151 Crores) to be executed over a 3 year timeframe
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Bangalore, India – February 3, 2006: Albion, a division of Scandent Solutions, announces the award of a US$34M contract with the State of Tennessee 's Department of Human Services for the development and implementation of the Tennessee Vision Integration Platform (V.I.P.). The V.I.P. system will provide comprehensive automated support for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Food Stamps, Medicaid and TennCare as well as other State supported programs. The contract will be executed over a 3 years time frame.

The Albion solution is based on an implementation of its @Vantage Health and Human Services Framework, which is the selected eligibility platform in use in Massachusetts, Wyoming and Minnesota . Albion will use @Vantage to implement a solution designed for Tennessee that will provide improved client-focused service delivery, allowing Tennessee citizens to access services via the Internet, while improving operational efficiencies by streamlining business processes for the Tennessee caseworkers. The new Tennessee system will be dynamic and flexible and support ongoing program and policy changes in a manner that is timely, cost-effective and efficient.

The @Vantage product line provides a full suite of Citizen Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) capabilities for Health and Human Service (HHS) organizations. Rob Marchant, President of Albion stated, “We are delighted by this win in Tennessee and the commitment by another State to Albion 's @Vantage HHS platform. Tennessee DHS has a reputation for creating innovative solutions to complex social problems - the State's vision to implement a solution that is based on a reusable and extensible software framework is evidence of a forward thinking organization committed to providing superior services to its citizens”.

About Scandent Solutions Corporation Ltd
Scandent Solutions is a broad based IT services company that offers business consulting, application implementation, software engineering, maintenance and support services. It is promoted by Scandent Group, which has in its fold IT and BPO companies that collectively employ 3,500 professionals serving customers in 4 continents through over 70 locations worldwide. Scandent strives to deliver differentiated solutions with impeccable quality. The services of the firm include strategy, application implementation, software engineering and support solutions.

On September 5, 2005, the Board of Directors of Scandent Solutions decided to merge the company with Cambridge Services Holdings LLC. Pursuant to this merger Cambridge Australia will become subsidiary of Scandent Solutions with effect from April 1, 2005. The merger process is underway and is subject to the requisite regulatory and shareholder approvals. The new entity will be called Cambridge Solutions Limited.

About Albion
Albion is a wholly owned US division of Scandent Solutions. Albion is focused on providing services to US States and specializes in both Health and Human Services and Justice information systems. Albion has been focused on government software development. Customers include Massachusetts, Minnesota and Wyoming.

Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release are forward looking statements which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward looking statements.
The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services and BPO, including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns in fixed price, fixed time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, etc. The company does not undertake to update any forward looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.

Media Contacts:

Scandent Solutions Corp Ltd.

Pradeep Chaudhry, CFO
Phone: 98860-10174
pradeep.chaudhry@scandent.com

Satyen Patel, Exec Vice Chairman
Phone: (44) 1344-297-901
satyen.patel@scandent.com

Melissa Arulappan
Corporate Voice|Weber Shandwick
Cell: + 91 98450 22389
melissa@corvoshandwick.co.in

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