Award of Contract

Manpower Software PLC
03 December 2003


MANPOWER SOFTWARE PLC ("the Company")
AWARD OF CONTRACT


Manpower Software plc is pleased to announce a new contract for the sale of its
MAPS Taskforce Duty Rostering software to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHNT)
for use at Derriford Hospital. The value of the contract is approximately
£570,000 over three years. Derriford Hospital, which has a total of 6,000
employees, will use MAPS Taskforce to control the scheduling of its complete
staff of nurses, doctors and allied health professionals.

In conjunction with the recently announced £1.2m contract with UK Defence
Medical Services and an existing three year agreement with PHNT to extend the
use of our MAPS Foresight software at Derriford, this further sale underlines
the potential of MAPS in the healthcare sector. In a Health environment of
on-going skills shortages and complex legal requirements, the MAPS solution is
able to predict the future demand for different types of staff, match this with
supply and deploy available staff to optimise their effectiveness. Its
fundamental purpose is to ensure that there are sufficient staff available with
the right skills to deliver high quality care to patients and ultimately reduce
patient length of stay.

The Company is actively marketing the MAPS Taskforce solution to the other 606
NHS Trusts in operation in the UK, each of which is a potential customer. MAPS
Foresight is also being promoted as a long term strategic workforce planning
tool to regional and national workforce planning groups within the NHS.

Enquiries:

Manpower Software plc
Simon Thorne, Finance Director
020 7389 9500

Strand Partners Limited
Rory Murphy, Director
020 7409 3494

Shore Capital
Alex Borrelli, Director
020 7408 4090

Dated 3 December 2003



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