BELFAST-based contract hire firm ogilvie Fleet has signed a £350,000 contract with Northern Materials Handling in Ballymoney to supply it with 9 Ford transit vans. Ogilvie's regional manager Jim Humphreys said: "We've shown how contract hire can release working capital and deliver tax efficiencies." Northern Materials director Sinead McCarry Bogle said: "the contract hire deal offered by ogilvie strips out significant costs and allows us to redirect engineers for other work."