Jerusalem: Israeli firm Ness Technologies will establish an Extended Development Center at its facilities in Bangalore to carry out a multi-million dollar project.

The firm, with strong presence in India, has won the contract from Quintiles Transnational Corp., a leading provider of pharmaceutical and biotech services, business daily 'The Marker' reported.

"The Bangalore facilities of the company will provide Quintiles with additional application development, testing and maintenance services in the clinical, laboratory and product commercialization domains," it said.

 The new center to be called Quintiles Extended Development and Testing Center will complement Quintiles' existing IT resources.

"We are very pleased that Quintiles selected our proven Managed Labs model as a foundation for their extended development center and we are committed to providing them with the highest quality services," President of Ness Managed Strategic Services, Shashank Samant, was quoted as saying.

Ness Technologies provides outsourcing services from its development centers in Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Its development centers house extended R&D labs for 30 independent software vendors (ISVs) as well as extended IT centers for applications development, maintenance and support for Information Technology organisations.

"Industry sources estimated the contract at about US$ 15 million," the daily said.

The contract is for three years with an optional six year extension," it said.