Ignition (Cayman) Ltd. has been awarded a major contract to digitise and index more than one million documents for the lands and survey department of the Cayman Islands government.

Ignition, which is based in Bermuda and has offices in the US and Canada, put in a bid for the contract following a request for proposal from the Cayman government and was subsequently handed the project which is expected to be completed within eight months.

The project will involved processing documents in varied sizes from letterhead to full-scale technical drawings and once digitised and indexed the documents will be uploaded to the government's Oracle-based enterprise content management system for secure authorised accessibility.

Ignition has enlisted an all-Caymanian team to augment the existing staff to execute the project.

Graham Pearson, CEO of Ignition, said: "We are pleased not only to have won this contract, but also that it provides us the opportunity to build our ever-expanding team of professionals.

"This project has brought the hiring of an additional six employees, which we have been able to do looking no further than our local Caymanian talent.

"In addition to providing employment opportunities, this contract further enables Ignition to train these employees, introducing them to the ever-expanding business of document management."

Ignition has extensive experience in records management, having completed major projects both locally and overseas, with more than 90 employees worldwide, supporting its corporate and civil entities with their document and records management.

In addition to providing both human resources and specialised equipment to carry out these projects, Ignition also has a team of highly-skilled consultants offering expertise in all facets of records management and archiving.

Michael Branco, senior vice-president of Ignition Bermuda, said: "Having scanned and archived close to two million pages in the past year, we are well-positioned to help organisations in Bermuda implement electronic archiving and accessibility.

"Our senior consultants in document management have experience implementing government programmes in other jurisdictions to support legislations similar to Bermuda's own PATI and PACE initiatives.

"Furthermore we are seeing more of the legal fraternity turn to Ignition for help in electronically archiving their critical document repositories.

"With our expertise in both scanning and document management, we have an end to end solution for Bermuda companies."